The Environmental Audit Committee found last year that, between 2013 and 2018, 96 per cent of its energy financing was for fossil fuel companies.
Sunni Arab leaders now recognise that Iran’s aggression represents an existential threat to more than just the Jewish state.
You have to have something to keep the Grid going when renewable sources falter, and the alternative is coal.
Post-Covid, the environment is likely to be egalitarian and interventionist. For libertarian, small state Eurosceptics, this must come as a disappointment.
Darren Grimes’ proposal to re-open the mines would produce fewer jobs, attract less investment, and sell our region short.
In 2018, just to transport 4.7million tonnes of Russian coal was equivalent to a whopping 130 jumbo jets whizzing, non-stop, around the globe for a year.
While the pandemic has been challenging for the National Grid, it also presents the perfect opportunity for change.
We need to install more electric vehicle charging points, plant kelp farms, and offer Council Tax discounts for environmentally-friendly gardening.
One area that has had relatively little attention, but could get much more, is the behaviour of commercial landlords across the country.
Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.
Our priorities were: tackling global climate change, solving Grand Challenges and making the UK the best place in the world to work and to grow a business.
They don’t believe that the Government’s moratorium on it is justified by the evidence about safety.
To make best use of public funds, we should capitalise on those sectors where we already have a world-leading position.