Back in the mid-2000s, I was part of a team of scientists led by Adrian Parker at Oxford Brookes University, who were looking at past climatic changes in the Arabian Peninsula. Adrian would go off to the United Arab Emirates and come back with a whole lot of samples which …
I think that many of us will not look back on 2018 with a great deal of affection. Politically, it has been a difficult year globally with the fallout from the election of Donald Trump and the ongoing Brexit woes being but two of the highest profile items. Environmentally, we …
The Korea IPCC meeting in October noted that research indicates that if we fail to keep temperatures below a 1.50C rise from the pre-industrial average global surface temperature we will experience some significant, dangerous and irreversible changes to our world. The COP24 meeting in Katowice, Poland was extended by a …
After a long period of planning, Jan and I toured New Zealand’s South Island a few months ago. South Island has a reputation as an adventure holiday and nature tourist destination, and it did not disappoint. The backdrop to some of my reflections on biodiversity was the talk by Dr …
A decade ago we needed a new economics: we still do, by Jonathan Ingleby More than a decade ago, in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis, the annual JRI conference[1] was, not surprisingly, somewhat side-tracked by the implications of that crisis for the environmental movement. Somebody (not one of …
The Climate Change Act ten years on: the global gold standard. Report by Dr Martin J Hodson It was 10 years since the UK government introduced its Climate Change Act on 26th November 2008, and I was very pleased to be invited by the Bishop of Salisbury to an event …
