Poverty was once the norm. A quarter of babies died in their first year of life. In 1980, around 40% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. Today only 10% of people do. Much of this is thanks to fossil fuels. The burning of wood, then coal, gas and oil, enabled us to prosper. […]
Keir Starmer has formally accepted the recommendations of the new Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce (NRT), setting the stage for a ‘radical reset’ of Britain’s nuclear regulations and signalling the Government’s intent to fast-track a new era of reactors. In the last year, the UK has finally started to get serious about nuclear energy. Financing has been […]
Britain has a problem, and it’s to do with electricity. Most of the nuclear power plants in the UK are being decommissioned because they are so old. This includes 17 nuclear sites, some of which date back to the 1940s. Nuclear energy provides around 15% of the country’s electricity, but most existing nuclear power stations […]
‘The lamps are going out all over Europe,’ – so said Britain’s Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the First World War, but it is perhaps even more literally the case today. As German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock noted last week, ‘We buy 50% of our coal from Russia. If we exclude […]
Across the globe there is now widespread support for tackling climate change, but politicians and activists can’t agree on how to actually do it. We know what solutions will work. Rigorous scientific assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Working Group 3 on mitigation and adaptation have identified what we need to most […]
