The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank has reported on the conclusions of the Citizen’s Juries set up by the IPPR to discuss climate change policy, which took place in the Tees Valley, S Wales, Thurrock and Aberdeen. The take home message was that the cost of climate change must not fall on…
CCL UK welcomes the government’s new commitment to cut carbon emissions to 78% of the 1990 level by 2035. It is also very good to see that the government is committed to tackling emissions from international aviation and shipping. The Committee on Climate Change’s 6th Carbon Budget, published late last year, stated that this level…
On the 17th February the Environmental Audit Committee produced its third report for the session 2019 -21, entitled: Growing back better: putting nature and net zero at the heart of the economic recovery. Summaries and the full report (PDF) are available from the website linked above. It doesn’t pull any punches! …. The cross-party EAC…
I hope many of you caught the news of top climate scientist, Jim Hansen, and his letter to Boris. I’m reposting it in this blog with Jim’s permission but without further comment except to say that much of the, unreported, segment concerns carbon fee and dividend with CCL-UK being recommended as Boris’s next port of…
James Hansen has written a letter to Boris, which has been published in an article in the Guardian, ,asking that he set an example to the world at COP 26 by taking the lead on fighting climate change through the implementation of carbon fee and dividend: Why has such a policy not been adopted in…
At Columbia University on the 2nd of December Antonio Guterres gave a hard hitting speech on The State of the Planet, and what nations have to do to avoid climate crisis, poverty and war. This included carbon pricing: Put global finance to work for climate The commitments to net zero emissions are sending a clear…
The pressure is on….Useful article from The Independent, (15/11/20). Government climate adviser urges Boris Johnson to act now to be ‘credible’ on crisis ‘What we’ll be looking for is firm commitments for immediate action on the central issues which really have to be dealt with at once,’ says Lord Deben Ashley Cowburn@ashcowburn,Daisy Dunne@daisydunnesci Boris Johnson must…
A article in the Guardian (13/11/20) interviewing Michael Mann (author of the ‘hockey stick study) cites a letter signed by many scientists and activists, including James Hansen, which states that carbon capture technology, derided by many climate activists, has to be part of the solution. The beauty of CF&D, of course is that carbon emitting…
The Zero Carbon Campaign (ZCC) is about as different from CCL as two organisations, with similar aims and acronyms, can get. Both organisations campaign for carbon pricing and both organisations have concluded that a carbon-dividend is vital to ensure fairness and effectiveness. But CCL is a grass-roots band of citizens whilst ZCC was set up…
An article by Harry Cockburn in The Independent today reveals that ….. The government is coming under increasing pressure to set out ambitious new climate plans. A series of letters from across the political and social spectrum signed by various groups of health professionals, campaigners, MPs, and academics, are all calling on the government to…
