Now, more than ever, people need to see that environmental action makes a tangible improvement to their lives. These are febrile times. People want certainty and the safety of what they know. Politicians and the media can easily scapegoat climate policy and erode support for ‘new and untested’ low carbon technologies. Despite the urgency of climate change, everything moves sl...

Not so long ago Norway was the big story in electric vehicles. They were one of the earliest movers, with subsidies for EVs and privileged access to parking and bus lanes. It was the first country to cross the rubicon and sell more EVs than petrol and diesel cars.

In a graph of global EV sales from 2019 it’s well ahead of the pack, trailed by a handful of Northern ...

In the long walk towards universal energy access, refugees are among the hardest to reach. Across the world there are 120 million people living in refugee camps, and 94% of them don’t have clean and affordable power. That’s something that my colleagues at Ashden are working on, as part of a project called

It’s a cloudless spring day outside as I write. This being England, it could snow tomorrow and the end of winter is largely psychological. At the risk of casting one’s proverbial clout, I’m still going to review our first winter with a heat pump.

If you go down to Luton station at the moment, you’ll find engineers on site fitting lifts to all platforms. It’s a much delayed improvement to our old and shabby station that will finally allow people with disabilities, pushchairs or luggage to get to their trains without struggling down the stairs. With this addition, the train service to Luton can tick off one of the five ...