Why the Prime Minister is going to the New York climate summit
A version of this post was first published by the New Statesman. A new joint report from Green Alliance, WWF, Christian Aid, RSPB and Greenpeace believes we will have a global agreement on tackling...
View ArticleWhy the EU2030 climate agreement is progress
The new EU 2030 climate package is a messy compromise, just like every other negotiated agreement in history, but it constitutes real progress. It is progress because we now have the most ambitious...
View ArticleFive things we learned from the Greener Britain Hustings
At the Greener Britain Hustings, senior party representatives debated with the general public what they will do, if they get into power at the next election, to create a greener Britain. Unlike some of...
View ArticleCan the Prime Minister deliver his climate pledges?
This post first appeared on BusinessGreen. Many didn’t believe the Prime Minister would ever agree to make a pledge on climate change. Not in the middle of a general election. And not when Lynton...
View ArticleLetter from America: Washington and the art of compromise
Alastair Harper is head of politics at Green Alliance. He’s participating in the US State Department’s International Visitors Leadership Programme on climate change and will be sending dispatches over...
View ArticleLetter from America: the US’s secret green test site
Alastair Harper is head of politics at Green Alliance. He’s currently participating in the US State Department’s International Visitors Leadership Programme on climate change. This is his second...
View ArticleLetter from America: how cowboys cope with climate change
Alastair Harper is head of politics at Green Alliance. He’s currently participating in the US State Department’s International Visitors Leadership Programme on climate change. This is his third report...
View ArticleLetter from America: no man is an island
Alastair Harper is head of politics at Green Alliance. He participated in the US State Department’s International Visitors Leadership Programme on climate change. This is the final report of his trip....
View ArticleBoris’s big failure: why is London still killing its citizens?
A little over five years ago, my daughter was born in central London, in an area where the nearest air quality monitoring station recorded particulates as having reached dangerous levels 55 times that...
View ArticleHow the EU cleaned up my holidays
This piece is taken from issue 36 of our journal, Inside Track, which will be published this week. It is summer, at some point around 1987. I and my mum and dad are on holiday in Skegness. We sit on...
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