Posts Tagged: renewables

“Good at rugby, lousy at renewable energy” Okay, that’s not an adage that many supporters will mutter in the upcoming Six Nations as the opposing team scores a try. But, at the moment, it’s sort of true. The tournament coincides with the build-up to WWF’s Earth Hour (kick off at 8.30pm on Saturday 23 March), [...]

The government will soon publish its long-awaited Energy Bill. As we wait to see the detail, the debate around energy gets more heated. To many people the biggest concern about energy is the cost of their fuel bills, and a lot of other aspects of the energy debate can seem unclear or confusing. So it’s [...]

At a time of recession, it is natural that there is a focus on the cost of energy and the impact of policies as well as gas prices on the amount that we pay for our fuel bills. At the same time, the record breaking low levels of Arctic sea ice recorded in August and [...]

On Sunday night WWF, along with the international development charity Tearfund and the progressive Conservative action group Bright Blue, sponsored an event looking at how the Conservative Party, in its own unique way, ideologically tackles climate change. We had a varied panel including think-tanks, the former chair of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, Sir [...]

The WWF team working on the Sky Rainforest Rescue partnership recently took a day out to see how our colleagues at Sky are addressing their environmental impact at their headquarters in London. The vast complex which makes up the nerve centre of Sky’s operation has been dubbed ‘Skyberia’ by some who have got lost among [...]

Here’s a letter that John Sauven (from Greenpeace) and I sent to The Times, responding to an article suggesting that the cost of nuclear power will be far higher than the government anticipated, and higher than offshore wind. Anyone familiar with the history of the costs of nuclear won’t be surprised to hear this… “Sir [...]

Four years ago, the UK passed a truly historic piece of legislation – the Climate Change Act. For the first time, a major economy set a legally binding long-term framework to tackle climate change, aiming at reducing emissions from the UK by at least 80% by 2050. The Act arose from a strong cross-party consensus [...]

I’m starting to wonder if we saw a glimpse into the future this week… On Monday nuclear power once again proved itself to be unreliable with news emerging of an unexplained shutdown on Sunday of one of the reactors at EDF’s Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian. Thankfully Scotland has grown its renewable energy [...]

Earlier today I attended the Economist UK Energy Summit in London. This short video blog was filmed just after I shared a panel with Shell, National Grid, and Scottish Power. I argued for the need for an energy future that takes account of tackling climate change and the urgent need to switch from fossil fuels [...]

Making UK homes more energy-efficient should be a no-brainer. It helps reduce people’s bills, creates jobs in the building trade, improves the country’s energy security – and also happens to be the most cost-effective way to reduce our carbon emissions. So why isn’t our government fully behind it…? The International Energy Agency says energy efficiency [...]