The very latest on environmental issues from an economic, business, and political perspective.
We’ve all seen the countless articles in the news over the past year: ‘2020 tied for warmest year on record,’ NASA; ‘Earth at risk of becoming a hothouse’, CNN; ‘Rising seas will erase more cities by 2050’, The New York Times. Rising temperatures have had grave effects on our planet; but what has this meant for the world economy and how could this impact our … Continue reading Warming Worries for Our Economy?
The influential scientist and environmentalist James Lovelock provides a frightening view on the future of humanity: the Gaia hypothesis. It suggests that organisms interact in such a way so as to create a self-regulating environment. When an organism is in over-reproduction, the environment reacts by limiting its population. Lovelock insists that humans are no different. As our carbon footprint increases, the earth reacts with climate … Continue reading Can We Survive Without Fossil Fuels?
Last year humans emitted 550 times their combined weight in CO2. These 33 billion tons are twice the number required to keep global warming under the 1.5°C mark agreed at the 2015 Paris Agreement. Continue reading Can Carbon Trading Solve our Emissions Crisis?
It is not because natural resources are finite that humanity will ever run out. Reverend Thomas Malthus’ warning in the latter parts of the 18th century on our planet’s inability to produce enough food to feed an ever-growing population has never materialised into a genuine concern. Nor has the US Bureau of Mines’ 1914 prediction that “The world will run out of oil in 10 … Continue reading Natural Resources: The Never-Ending Supply
Britain’s economy has been the worst hit of all of the OECD economies (major developed economies) both before and during the lockdown period. Whilst other countries’ economies are now starting to recover, Britain is still in intensive care. There are a number of reasons for this situation. Firstly, a decade of austerity led to cuts in public spending which eroded public-sector infrastructure and good will. … Continue reading Renewable Energy: Britain’s way back?
Bob Massie has been working on business, finance, governance, and sustainability for more than thirty years. Massie has served as the executive director of Ceres, a powerful coalition of institutional investors and environmental and public interest groups in the United States. In 1997 he proposed the creation of generally accepted guidelines for corporate sustainability performance. In 2002 he conceived of the first Institutional Investor Summit … Continue reading An interview with Bob Massie: Global warming, economic growth and the future of capitalism
On the 1st April 2016, the Guardian newspaper published an April Fool’s article describing the Foodini – “the first 3D-food printer to print all types of real, fresh, nutritious foods”. Many people smirked actually tempted to buy. But it wasn’t a joke. 3D food printing is no sci-fi experiment or Wallace & Gromit invention. Today 3D food printers actually exist and are coming to your … Continue reading 3D-printed Food
We are frequently subjected to news detailing the awful consequences of climate change if we don’t prevent it, from cities flooded by melting ice to animal species becoming extinct. Yet it is very rare to see anything about how much flooded cities would damage the economy, and it is even rarer to hear about how much climate change is costing us already. Aside from the … Continue reading The Cost of Climate Change
Natural resources have long been regarded as a curse to development. New initiatives to encourage better governance are starting to change that. Continue reading The Natural Resources Curse
From the termination of the Airbus A380 to the controversial third Heathrow runway, there has been growing discontent about the future of air travel. Continue reading The Cost of Fuelling Development
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