Mar 30 2012
E3G founding director Tom Burke was interviewed on Newsnight last night discussing energy security in the UK, with Peter Lilley and Joss Garman. Follow the link here to see the full programme (interviews start at about six and a half minutes in).
Mar 16 2012
Tom Burke, one of E3G’s Founding Directors, has been engaged in debate over nuclear power policy in the UK. Along with three other former Directors of Friends of the Earth, Tom wrote a letter to the Prime Minister offering advice they didn’t feel he was getting from DECC. George Monbiot and others reacted with their own letter to the Prime Minister yesterday. The four FoE Directors were granted
Oct 20 2011
Ian Fleming introduced the world to his arch villain Goldfinger in 1959. Into his mouth he put the now famous aphorism “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”
Later, a more vulgar version of the same sentiment became popular in America. It was claimed that if something looked like a duck, walked like a duck and quacked like a duck, it was probably
Dec 11 2010
Countries emerged from intense negotiations in Cancun with a package that keeps the UNFCCC alive and kicking. The positive energy and momentum we have seen in the talks opens up a pathway moving forward.
Nick Mabey, CEO of E3G said: “This is a lifeline for the international climate talks. The Cancun package provides the green shoots which can grow into a global deal.”
Cancun was always
Nov 23 2010
Please see attached document for a copy of Tom Burke’s speech at the Business of Sustainability conference, Minerals Council of Australia 13/10/2010. The speech explores the interaction between the mining industry and society within a world-wide political context. Tom Burke demonstrates that the increasing resource scarcity facing our world requires a new alignment in the interaction between
May 20 2010
Following the UK elections on May 6th, the right-wing Conservative party, who secured 306 seats in the election (20 short of an outright majority), joined forces with the center-left Liberal Democrats, who secured 57 seats, to form the UK’s first coalition Government since World War II.
This briefing note looks at the key elements of the new coalition government’s climate and energy
Dec 14 2009
As we approach the endgame of the Copenhagen climate change negotiations, members of the Major Economies Forum, a group of the largest emitting nations, announced a $350m technology transfer program to support developing countries a series of action plans for key climate technologies and a US led clean
Dec 09 2009
Nick Mabey was asked to give his expert reaction to the leak of Danish text at at the Copenhagen negotiations. His view (copied below) was made as part of wider comment, available at Guardian’s Copenhagen climate conference coverage.
Jul 13 2009
Following the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy, there has been a lot of coverage on the group’s G8’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 and avoid average global temperatures from rising more than two degrees Celsius. But is it all smoke and mirrors or is there real progress towards a Global Climate Deal at Copenhagen in December 2009?
Dec 15 2008
Following a meeting on transatlantic relations at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), an article written by Jennifer Morgan, E3G’s Global Climate Change Director and Simon Koschut of The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP – Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Austwartige Politik e.V.) appeared in DGAP Standpunkt.
The article is also available to download above.
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