Climate Change: Reflections on Current Progress & Attitudes

According to the latest public attitudes survey by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), 80% of the UK population are either fairly concerned (45%) or very concerned (35%) about climate change. This concern about the fossil fuels we continue to emit into the atmosphere is disproportionately held by younger people as seen …

UK Government risks judicial review by not following Climate Change Committee policy advice more closely

A report has been released in October 2018 by the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Politics and the Grantham Institute summarising the U.K. body, it's strengths, achievements and lessons to be learnt by the CCC and the U.K. government. The CCC was created in the pioneering 2008 Climate Change Act and advised government on …

The Multipolar World – Global Mega Trends Part 6

Continuing my series on global mega trends, this article focuses on what the European Environment Agency describes as the Multipolar World. Put simply, this is the emergence of new economic and political powers and the relative diminishment of the West. This gradual change represents a structural convergence with developing nations increasing in importance and developed …