Monthly Archives: September 2010

Blogging from the Labour Party Conference in Manchester, Political Climate has picked up on some new polling by YouGov for Policy Network. This  survey was aimed at getting the Labour Party to understand how voters see it, but it also has some interesting … Continue reading →

I’ve got a rather provocatively titled piece coming out in the next issue of Political Quarterly, about two different ways of approaching climate change politics put forward by the two Miliband brothers, currently locked in a struggle for the leadership of … Continue reading →

Our letter is published in today’s Guardian newspaper. You can read it here and below: The Guardian, Letters, 23 September 2010. Dear Sir George Monbiot is right to highlight politics as the main blocker to action on climate change (Climate change … Continue reading →

In Today’s Guardian newspaper in the UK, environmental columnist George Monbiot has seemingly woken up to the politics of climate change – almost. He finishes a lengthy soliloquy to the global climate change negotiations and climate campaigning more generally with … Continue reading →

Here’s a post that might equally well be entitled ‘better late than never’; I’ve finally got around to looking at this year’s data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance contained within the UNEP-SEFI global trends report. It’s fascinating and puts in … Continue reading →

To cries of ‘now you tell us,’ Yvo de Boer, the man perpetually dubbed ‘former UN climate chief’, has reportedly said ‘Discussions about [emissions] targets have become largely irrelevant in the context of the Copenhagen outcome.’ And, has reportedly also said,’ I … Continue reading →

In haste, but because we were recently asked by a climate campaigner friend; can there be a Make Poverty History (MPH) campaign for climate change? From memory, MPH persuaded its supporters in the UK to take more than 9 million … Continue reading →