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New Government; new Ministers in DECC; new opportunities. Which makes it a brilliant time for Ashden to be promoting all its UK Award winners, not just celebrating their success, but inviting those new Ministers in DECC to embrace the world of talent here in the UK to help deliver on our ambitions…

This is not the first time I’ve blogged about the Pope, and I’m nervous about bigging him up too much given my views on family planning and women’s rights. But as a growing and already hugely inspirational presence in our environmental world, there’s so much to admire about what this man is saying…

The air is still thick with the poignant wisps of personal political failure – after one of the most extraordinary General Elections of the modern era. Failure of that kind is all the more cruel when it is entirely unexpected, and although many Lib Dem MPs knew that there was going to be some kind…

My good friend Walt Patterson has just written (and self-published) a new book. I really enjoyed it – and happily endorsed it: “This is a wonderful, provocative and enlightening book. After more than 50 years working in the ‘energy economy’, Walt Patterson has come up with a compelling new story.…

For me, 2015 is turning out to be the Year of the Oil Palm. It’s already more than a year since I took on the role of chairing the Steering Committee for the High Carbon Stock Study, at the invitation of both Unilever and Sime Darby, two of Forum for the Future’s biggest Partners. It’s been a year…

I’ve come to the conclusion that of all the Enemies of Sustainability in this wretched Government, Eric Pickles may well be the worst of the lot. I’ve been tracking his increasingly hostile, irrational interventions over a number of years, and I’m forced to conclude that our Secretary of State at…