Why Mark Lynas is wrong to say he’s wrong!

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jun 7, 2008 | All Posts, Climate Change, Favourite posts, Politics, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas)

Last week Mark Lynas wrote an article for the New Statesman in which he surprisingly argued against carbon rationing. As he acknowledges, this is a complete reversal from his earlier article in which he argued for it in the strongest of terms. Unfortunately, I believe...

BBC – “MPs back personal carbon credits”

by Shaun Chamberlin | May 26, 2008 | All Posts, Climate Change, Politics, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas)

Today the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), tasked with evaluating the Government’s environmental progress, published their report into Personal Carbon Trading, finding that “personal carbon trading could be essential in helping to...

Concentrating Solar thermal Power (CSP) – a step in the right direction, but no panacea

by Shaun Chamberlin | May 19, 2008 | All Posts, Climate Change, Peak Oil, Politics

As I mentioned in my earlier post, last week I met Polly Higgins, The Lazy Environmentalist. She specialises in CSP, and informed me that we may now be seeing serious political movement towards an EU-MENA supergrid bringing CSP-generated electricity to Europe from the...

DEFRA’s pre-feasibility study into TEQs

by Shaun Chamberlin | May 19, 2008 | All Posts, Climate Change, Peak Oil, Politics, Reviews and recommendations, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas)

This is just a quick post to point people towards the DEFRA pre-feasibility study into TEQs that came out earlier this month, and in particular the critical responses to it posted by the Centre for Sustainable Energy and The Lean Economy Connection (pdf) (this one...

London Mayoral elections – vote Ken.

by Shaun Chamberlin | Apr 30, 2008 | All Posts, Climate Change, Politics, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas)

Vote for Ken Livingstone – the future of our world may depend on it. Having worked with the Energy and Climate Change teams at City Hall it’s clear that they’re desperate for Ken to win another term, although for obvious reasons they won’t say...

‘Climate Change – The Solutions’ event

by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 14, 2007 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas)

Last night was an exciting one for me, as an event that I dreamt up actually came to fruition. I have been feeling for a while that the public mood has moved on – virtually everyone is now aware of the challenge of climate change, but very few people actually...