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The Green Deal will insulate homes, but can it save energy?
Adam Corner for Guardian Sustainable Business. Adam is a research associate at Cardiff University whose interests include the psychology of communicating climate change. At a fringe meeting of the...
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Conference diary: making the papers
Alastair Harper is Green Alliance’s senior policy adviser on Political Leadership and roving party conference diarist. Here his is first posting from the Conservative’s party conference in Birmingham,...
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Security tips, ministers ‘gagging for it’ and the end of a barren consensus
Alastair Harper is Green Alliance’s senior policy adviser on Political Leadership and roving party conference diarist. This is his final diary posting from the Conservative party conference in...
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Conference diary: where now for green conservatism?
In his latest post from the party conferences, Green Alliance’s Alastair Harper reports from Manchester. This piece first appeared on BusinessGreen. There’s something surreal about the way the...
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Conference diary: a bird’s eye view from Birmingham
I used to work for a conservation charity famous for protecting birds and once, on a call, a woman used the phrase “let’s kill two birds with one stone, here”. I barely noticed what she’d said (it was...
View ArticleConference diary: hovering in anticipation
The overwhelming atmosphere at Conservative Party conference this week was one of anticipation. Throughout the fringe events and the hotel bars, even in the main hall, a sense that something big was...
View ArticleConservative Party Conference: Boris Johnson holds the key to environmental...
Green Alliance descended on Manchester for the Conservative Party Conference, along with the rest of Westminster, not really knowing what to expect. For many, including Conservatives first elected in...
View ArticleWhat did the party conferences tell us about the politics of the environment?
Labour’s slogan was ‘A fairer, greener future’ and commitments to climate action ran through speeches by Ed Miliband (“This is the undeniable truth of our age: it is cheaper to save the planet than...
View ArticleWhat did this year’s party conferences really mean for the environment?
Central to the need for swift, decisive action to tackle the climate and nature emergencies is bold political leadership. We won’t see change to business as usual without significant buy-in from party...
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