The latest report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, ‘The Climate Paradox: Why We Need To Reset Action on Climate Change’ has caused an almighty row within the Labour Party and amongst the UK’s climate commentariat and climate campaigners and activists. The Guardian newspaper has felt it necessary to editorialise about the Report, […]
Discussing a tendency in contemporary politics to reduce issues to questions of scientific measures of climate change, Mike Hulme argues for more diverse understandings of climate and change and its impacts on society. I discussed these ideas in my lecture at the London School of Economics, ‘Epistemic Pluralism and Climate Change’ on 10 March 2025, […]
Despite a heated debate at COP28 over whether the world should be phasing-out fossil fuels altogether, the governmental delegates in the end agreeing rather to “transition away from fossil fuels”, Net Zero remains the collectively agreed target. But as I argue in this post for the Institute of Arts and Ideas, Net Zero is both […]
