Energy
International Energy Agency: Solar leads the charge in another record year for renewables
Renewables accounted for two-thirds of new power added to world’s grids last year. Of these, solar power was the fast growing. Read here
Environment
Environment
Anna Coote – Claiming and controlling the commons
It is one of the oldest concepts of civilisation, but has disappeared from our vocabulary amd political concepts, which says a lot: The Commons Anna Coote is Principal Fellow at NEF – the New Economics Foundation. […]
Corruption
DeSmog UK – Mapped: Here’s How Many PR Companies Lobby for Fossil Fuels in the UK
DeSMOG UK finds out who is doing the lobbying for the fossil fuel and energy companies in Britain Cross-posted from DeSmog UK By Kyla Mandel, Editor of DeSmog UK There are nearly two dozen PR […]
Environment
Stewart Lansley – Citizens’ wealth funds
Since 2008, the question of inequality has moved up the political agenda. This rising concern has yet to translate into policy action. The UK continues to sit towards the top of the global inequality league, […]
Climate Crisis
Joanna Gilmore, Will Jackson, Helen Monk – Fracking and state violence in the age of austerity
In Britain austerity has been used by the government to ram through fracking against massive popular opposition. This is an attack on the commons, dispossesing the public of its wealth and its land. Joanna Gilmore […]