Asking for a climate income to tackle climate change.
Rosebank has been given the go ahead today despite the repeated warnings of the IEA. The approval is in no small part due to the fact that there is no price on pollution at the point of production. Ironically the windfall tax has not disincentivised further development because the “investment allowance” allows companies to claim…
The Labour Party has announced that it intends to stop the development of any new oil and gas fields in UK territory if it forms the next government. The move will have far-reaching consequences, leading to a rapid contraction of the UK’s oil and gas industry over the next decade. So it’s no surprise that…
Pope Francis released a message on the 25th May in advance of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (September 1st). He said that COP28 …‘must listen to science and institute a rapid and equitable transition to end the era of fossil fuel…..According to the commitments undertaken in the Paris Agreement to…
As readers will know we at CCL UK are affiliates of a worldwide organisation, Citizens’ Climate International, which endorses building the political will for a liveable world through five levers of political will. This type of people power has had notable results, most famously in Canada. The current Bretton Woods project has also given the…
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the Synthesis Report for the 6th Assessment—is being described as “a survival guide for humanity”. That is because scientific evidence now makes clear: unchecked climate disruption will make it impossible to feed all of humankind, sustain ecosystems and biodiversity in all regions, and will lead to…
The Government’s revised energy stategy has had extensive coverage since its release yesterday. One piece of good news is that the need for Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is now back on the agenda. Sadly though, the Government has not taken this opportunity to reconsider the decision to continue to maximise the exploitation of the…
The newly released IPCC Synthesis report reiterates the fact that we must act now if we stand any chance of preventing global temperatures rising above 1.5C. Guterres called for rich countries to stop fossil fuel exploration now and coal, oil and gas consumption by 2040. IPCC Press Release: Urgent climate action can secure a liveable…
A new report published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is warning that there is a large consensus amongst all published studies that opening new gas and oil fields will not be compatible with 1.5C. The study did not look at coal as that has been extensively addressed elsewhere. Worth letting your MP…
The commitments of COP26 seem to have been forgotten in the rush to approve new oil and gas fields, ostensibly justified by the need for energy security. On June 1st the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty organisation (FFNPT) published the report Fuelling Failure, How oil, gas and coal are driving climate change and sabotaging the…
On the 1st June three former UN climate chiefs, Christian Figueres (2010-16), Yvo de Beor (2006-10) and Michael Zammit Cutajar (1991-2002) wrote a joint article in the Guardian. They state that in February the world’s governments endorsed the IPPC report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability and thus the statement that… “The cumulative scientific evidence is…
