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Jump attributed to growing appetite among energy firms and falling technology costs The number of new renewable energy projects applying for planning permission reached a four-year high in the UK last year as energy companies raced to meet the rising demand for clean electricity. There were 269 planning applications for new wind, solar and bioenergy

Publication date: July 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 173 Author(s): Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Gustavo García-López, Joeri Scholtens

Independent MP’s three-week campaign drawing on bushfire crisis will include digital billboards and bus shelter ads Independent MP Zali Steggall is launching a national advertising campaign drawing on the summer bushfire crisis to rally public support for her private member’s bill on climate change, due to be introduced to parliament later this month. The three-week

UK’s biggest fund manager had been criticised over inclusion of stocks such as Shell The UK’s biggest fund manager has bowed to client pressure and agreed to launch its first fossil fuel-free ethical pension fund later this year. Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), which has been one of the most outspoken fund managers over

Describing uncertainty – why coronavirus is neither a ‘black swan’ nor a low probability event The manuscript of Radical Uncertainty was finished well before anyone had heard of the novel Coronavirus. However, the current pandemic (and attempts to deal with it) is a good example of the radical uncertainty we discuss. I will write more

Publication date: July 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 173 Author(s): Ranjula Bali Swain, Uma S. Kambhampati, Amin Karimu

Last week’s budget was a missed opportunity: we need to mobilise our attachment to country When it comes to fighting climate change and its effects, both greens and conservatives pay far too much attention to localism, voluntarism, and corporate responsibility. All are valuable; none are adequate. If, as many environmentalists say, the struggle against global

From cold-water swimming to gardening, the psychological benefits of the great outdoors have inspired a growing genre of books, but can nature improve our mental health? There is a revealing moment in Isabel Hardman’s book where the author, a political journalist who lives with post-traumatic stress disorder, joins a forest therapy session. The therapist encourages

We need to rethink the idea that the hunger for new clothes ought to be sated immediately Fashion operates on desire. How we dress feeds off cravings to be different as well as part of a tribe; to be en vogue but ahead of the pack. The message from the high street is that such

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