Climate Change
I’m very happy with my heat-pump but I blundered my way through the installation process. This is what I’d do differently now.
The last couple of years of my personal decarbonisation path have been dominated by heat pumps, offsetting, investments, and hypocrisy
Market pricing is just too short-term to take account of climate impacts to the extent we’d like, while carbon remains unpriced
Offsetting has both technical and behavioural problems, meaning my preferred approach is self-taxation to fund nature and policy projects
A light-hearted, but serious take, on what GFANZ should’ve announced in Glasgow in November 2021, written with Harald Walkate
The latest publications from GFANZ expose the limitations of the project. Is there an opportunity to reframe its objectives?
Asset managers need to figure out how to align membership of GFANZ with their fiduciary duty to clients, and fast.
My experience installing a heat pump shows the massive gap between climate policy and what happens on the ground
A recent paper reported as showing a causal link between divestment and carbon emissions proves nothing of the kind. It’s a case study on why to be sceptical of headlines describing complex research.
There’s no clear consensus on how individual citizens should best use their investments to save the planet. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
Cutting carbon through individual behaviour is possible, but can't be the whole answer…
Until we have global carbon pricing we must take responsibility for our consumption choices
Changes to diet and food sourcing are the closest thing to a free lunch in the battle against climate change…
Cutting our transport footprint means cutting our transport miles - electric vehicles can only be part of the answer…
Electrification of power is an essential part of moving to a low-carbon future. But looking at the issue in detail has exposed my naivety and challenged my view about the right solution…
Green tariffs and solar panels can make a real contribution to reducing our domestic carbon footprint
Measuring our carbon footprint has been a salutary experience, but has increased my confidence that we can halve it by 2025.
Extinction Rebellion protests have caused me to revisit my own approach to climate change.
After a year living with my heat pump I’m pleasantly surprised by the economics of ownership.