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Whose fault is climate change?

Terra Infirma

This week, a tweet appeared on my timeline saying “Capitalism created climate change, only socialism can fix it!” From a climate point of view, we need the state to shape the infrastructure required for a low carbon future and to tilt the playing field towards low carbon options.

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The real problem with electric vehicles is the bad press they get

Clean Energy Canada

EVs can scarcely stay out of the news and off social media these days, and while that much exposure for a key climate solution is positive in one respect, in another, it is — more often than not — increasingly negative. While Canadian media is relatively tamer, it is not without similar faults — or similar pushback.

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Who’s to blame for the climate COP out in Glasgow?

Terra Infirma

The underwhelming final results of the COP26 climate change conference reminded me of the old joke: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? One, but the light bulb has to want to change. Instead I try to identify who needs to change and how to get them to change.

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Not me guv, or why Climate Change is always someone’s fault

Terra Infirma

If we all sit in a state of denial pointing the finger at a company whose products we are happily consuming, nothing will change. He cited research that, if my memory serves, could be summarised as “Everybody wants something done about climate change, but are not so keen on the idea of doing something themselves. .”

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Saving our Wild Isles Review: Perfectly Pitched

Terra Infirma

One of the most influential public engagement events of recent years was the TV series Blue Planet II, presented by the peerless legend David Attenborough, whose evocative imagery of wildlife caught in ocean plastic made people face up to the impacts we have on the natural world. I am all for this tone of engagement.

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Shareholder Activism Faces Big Oil Obstruction Playbook When Pushing for Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

A proposal to limit HSBC bank climate risk exposure by ending coal financing, a resolution to cut Chevron’s supply chain emissions, a move in support of a climate risk lawsuit against Polish energy company Enea SA. The September 2023 study , “Deactivating Climate Activism?

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Rachel Reeves reelected to BEIS Select Committee Post

Business Green

But when things go wrong I waste no time in holding those responsible to account, whether fault lies in government or business.". Reeves will work closely on environmental issues with the chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), whose election will be announced later today.