Ecological Credit Crisis - Lessons from the financial credit crunch
As the grip of the global credit crunch tightens, can we step back and learn 
from our mistakes in the financial markets to develop a better understanding of how to approach the gathering "ecological crunch"?
14 July 2008
Fraser Durham
Developing Carbon Literacy
The challenge for society is to get 1 billion people carbon literate within the next 5 years.
10 July 2008
Antony Turner
Beyond carbon neutral
A claim of carbon neutrality based on offsetting is no longer a satisfactory orsufficient aim for any business or government. The key for all of us will be to learn from the distractions and diversions, and to change more quickly than the climate system on which we all depend.
28 April 2008
Peter Martin
There is a solution to the biofuels problem
The UK Government should admit that legally binding blending of biofuels is unhelpful. It should urgently withdraw thisrequirement and enable a market where genuine carbon and sustainability criteria are visible to all fuel purchasers.
Independent (letter to the Editor, 19 April 2008)
Antony Turner
Benn ducks pledge to honour targets
Mr Benn shocked his audience when he failed to bind the government to tough new curbs on CO2 emissions, widely expected to be recommended by the government’s new independent advisors on climate science.
23 April 2008
Alban Thurston
Prepare for environmental standards
While food standards are certainly significant, it is likely that we will see the emergence of enforceable “environmental” standards in the coming years.
Financial Times (letters to the Editor, 10 August 2007)
Tom Rivett-Carnac
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Offsetting is off-putting
In our efforts to deal with climate change, carbon offsetting is not the panacea that some people imagine.
Guardian online (23 July 2007)
Peter Martin
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Healing the Air
We have the capacity to live in harmony with our planet, but we need a rapid, massive and global awakening at a personal level if we wish to avoid self-destruction.
Resurgence (May – June 2004)
Antony Turner
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