UK Carbon

400 PPM, We Know What We Have to Do

Anders Lorenzen | Posted 13.05.2013 | UK
Anders Lorenzen

Its clear what we need to do to avoid dangerous climate change; we must wean ourselves off fossil fuels, leave the remaining ones in the ground and make the big switch to renewable energy.

EU Climate Policy Urgently Needs National Champions

Nick Molho | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Politics
Nick Molho

The European Parliament's vote this week against delaying the release of some 900 million carbon allowances (known as the 'back-loading' proposal) is disappointing on several grounds.

Conflicts and Conundrums: How the Venezuelan State Must Strike the Balance With its Indigenous People

Stephanie Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2013 | UK
Stephanie Kennedy

To the west of the country, the Sierra de PerijĂ¡, a stretch of both mountains and plains, traces the conflictive border zone between Colombia and Venezuela. The region's inhabitants are, today, a mixture of indigenous groups, cattle farmers, both rich and humble, and the inevitable generational pool of all three.

Much More Than a Debate on Natural Gas

Intelligence Squared | Posted 16.12.2012 | UK Politics
Intelligence Squared

The current debate on the future role of gas is much more than just that. It may signal the beginning of the end of the current UK policy strategy on energy and climate change.

The Best Building on the Park?

Shaun McCarthy | Posted 07.10.2012 | UK Sport
Shaun McCarthy

When the competition is over, the judges' scores are counted and the chairperson of the judging panel adjudicates the result, which buildings will get the medals?

Streets of Fire

Shaun McCarthy | Posted 11.08.2012 | UK Sport
Shaun McCarthy

The torch relay has come to the country, signalling the start of London's third modern Olympics. People who have worked on Games in the past tell me t...

Driverless Personalised Trains Available 24/7...Is the RailCab Project the Future of Transport?

Intelligence Squared | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK Tech
Intelligence Squared

Imagine a future where you simply press a button to have your own personal railway car waiting, day or night, to whisk you off at many times the speed of a car. And environmentally friendly, too! This is what we are designing in the 'RailCab' project.

Carbon Price Floor: What We Knew in Budget 2011 Will be Confirmed in Budget 2012

Ben Caldecott | Posted 19.05.2012 | UK Politics
Ben Caldecott

The UK government has correctly spotted an important problem: investors in clean power need more certainty than current policy provides.

Do You Know Where Green Electricity Will Come From?

Intelligence Squared | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK Tech
Intelligence Squared

By:Professor Stuart Haszeldine If electricity had a colour then today that would be black, and so would the water circulating in our heating (or cool...

Supply and Demand: Key Trends in Carbon Consumption

Hugh Jones | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Tech
Hugh Jones

Regulatory pressures, the need to improve efficiency and save money, and the promise of reputational gain have driven many large organisations to look at how they can measure and reduce carbon in their own business.

Mummification, Fireworks And Freezing: Weird Ways To Go

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 17.12.2011 | UK

The mummification of a terminally ill man for a Channel 4 documentary might arguably stretch the boundaries of taste, but it's not the strangest optio...

'Diamond Planet' Found Near Star

Posted 25.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A gem of a world made from diamond has been discovered orbiting a tiny spinning star 4,000 light years away. The "diamond plan...