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Quick responses to issues in the media, comments on events and other timely remarks.

Allocating a carbon budget to individuals

This is a quick response to a question about a ‘carbon budget for life’ (Rosalind Readhead – Twitter 11th Jan 2021; thread at: ) A Personal Annual Carbon Budget Working from the UK carbon budget in our recent paper (A Factor of Two…

Quick response to the PM’s ‘fag-packet’ plan

Nov. 2020 Five years on from the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, and the UK Government’s ten-point plan amounts to little more than a rhetorical flourish for which future generations will pay dearly. In the absence of a coordinated, quantitively…