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We Need To Talk About Syria
Kofi Annan has thrown up his hands and backed away from his role as UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria tasked with a peace mission. In one sense it is all too predictable. The United Nations...
View ArticleFutureproof Renewable Sustainable Energy #3
PRASEG Annual Conference 2012 http://www.praseg.org.uk/save-the-date-praseg-annual-conference/ “After EMR: What future for renewable and sustainable energy?” 31st October 2012 One Birdcage Walk,...
View ArticleHow is your Australia ?
[ PLEASE NOTE : This post is not written by JOABBESS.COM, but by a contact in Australia, who was recently asked if they could send an update of the situation there, and contributed this piece. ] John...
View ArticleGas Strategy “Dangerous Gamble”
I had a most refreshing evening at Portcullis House in Westminster this evening – apart from the fact that the Macmillan Room was overheated, so you couldn’t possibly deduce that energy conservation is...
View ArticleMind the Gap : BBC Costing the Earth
I listened to an interesting mix of myth, mystery and magic on BBC Radio 4. Myths included the notion that long-term, nuclear power would be cheap; that “alternative” energy technologies are expensive...
View ArticleDavid MacKay : Heating London
I took some notes from remarks made by Professor David MacKay, the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, yesterday, 1st May 2014, at an event entitled “How Will We Heat London ?”, held by Max...
View ArticleChristiana Figueres : Love Bug
It was probably a side-effect of the flu’, but as I was listening to Christiana Figueres speaking at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, this evening, I started to have tunnel vision, and the rest of the...
View ArticlePositively Against Negative Campaigning
How to organise a political campaign around Climate Change : ask a group of well-fed, well-meaning, Guardian-reading, philanthropic do-gooders into the room to adopt the lowest common denominator...
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European Referendum : Corpse Factory
So I was in a meeting on a dateless date, at an organisation with a nameless name, with some other unidentifiable people in the room with me. For some reason I had been invited, I cannot think why. Ah,...
View ArticleContracts for Difference Risks
The UK Government’s Electricity Market Reform (EMR) is a moving feast, or “trough”, if you are of the opinion that any state subsidy is a subsidy too far. My, how people complained and complained about...
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