| As the many tens of thousands fly back home from Baku after this year’s COP, where have the 29 attempts among the world’s nations to tackle climate change got us? The concentration of carbon in the atmosphere continues to rise; 80% of the world’s energy still comes from fossil fuels; and the 1.5 ⁰C target is being passed. But why? What’s causing the relentless increases in emissions that are feeding through to the continual, year-on-year 2ppm+ increase in carbon the atmosphere? COPs are based on the failed objective of achieving a legally binding set of emissions targets, measured in carbon production and not carbon consumption. They encourage net zero targeting, which is at best ineffectual. Why would anyone think that another 29 COPs are going to crack the climate problem? It’s time to re-set climate policies, build bottom-up coalitions of the willing, and face up to the full scale of our carbon consumption. |
Podcasts
- Podcast 93: Some new faces, same old problems – July 22 2026
- Podcast 92: Hotter days – July 8 2026
- Podcast 91: Beyond the nationalisation slogan – July 1 2026
- Podcast 90: Why can’t we build infrastructure in this country? – June 15 2026
Publications
- NESO – an accident waiting to happen – July 27 2026
- The cost of energy and what to do about it – June 3 2026
- What to do about the industrial energy crisis – March 24 2026
- Britain’s energy security – what the Iran war reveals and the lessons that should be learned – March 9 2026
Books
- Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
- Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
- Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels
- The Carbon Crunch – Revised and Updated
