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How to Re-establish the UK’s Lead on Climate Change

Chris Hall

However, subsequent Conservative prime ministers – Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak – “didn’t understand the urgency”, according to the Rt Hon John Selwyn Gummer, Lord Deben, Conservative Party peer and former chair of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) from 2012 to 2023. It’ll be a mess.”

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Is the LNG industry gaslighting the path to net-zero?

Corporate Knights

to Asia or Europe has higher carbon intensity than local coal use due to the leakage of methane – a powerful warming agent – throughout the LNG supply chain, but particularly during shipping. Cornell University ecosystem scientist Robert Howarth recently concluded that LNG exported from the U.S.

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ESG Explainer: On the Road to Transition

Chris Hall

In the whole of 2012, about 130 000 electric cars were sold worldwide. For those firms apparently struggling to keep pace, Wiggs says investors should ask where the bottleneck is – technology, a lack of infrastructure, or supply chain issues such as a chip shortage. Today, that many are sold in the space of a single week.”.