Defying its image of big oil, Texas is fast attracting businesses at the cutting edge of wind technology. If Texas goes low carbon, there is no excuse for any of us.
Tag: UK
Global postcode lottery for school meals
Despite promises by G8 leaders to prioritise food security, the World Food Programme is in trouble with its budget for 2009. Cuts in school feeding programmes highlight the contrast with school meals provided in richer countries.
Wimbledon roof snubs index insurance
The new sliding roof over the Wimbledon Centre Court represents an extreme and expensive example of adapting to climate uncertainties. Low cost index insurance is a valuable tool for poor farmers but can it work if climate becomes even less predictable?
Low carbon behaviour needs the selfish gene
What are the most effective strategies to inspire the behaviour change necessary to counter global warming? Less government intervention and more personal freedom might be the answer.
Scratching the surface of inequality
Governments are responding to public disgust at financial greed by increasing taxes for high earners. But it’s a reminder that becoming a little less rich does not address extreme global inequalities.
UK climate change bill: campaign success story
Was the UK Climate Change Bill really approved by parliament or was it a dream? If this attack of political common sense continues, what will be the next campaign success story?
No retreat from Kyoto, says UK Chief Scientist
The UK will respect its Kyoto Protocol obligations and will play a full role in forthcoming negotiations on how a successor treaty could control greenhouse gas emissions in the fight against climate change after 2012, says the governmentÂ’’s Chief Scientific Adviser.
Tories hit the road to Damascus
Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin launched the Conservative plans for international development in London on January 11th.
Gordon Brown’s moral universe
Gordon Brown outlined his vision of a universal moral code underpinning achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the CAFOD Pope Paul VI Memorial Lecture.