{"id":1110,"date":"2013-10-15T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2013-10-20T22:45:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T22:45:32","slug":"sceptical-politicians-and-financial-crisis-both-factors-in-uk-climate-lethargy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/sceptical-politicians-and-financial-crisis-both-factors-in-uk-climate-lethargy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sceptical\u2019 politicians and financial crisis are factors in UK climate lethargy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15 Oct. 2013 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blueandgreentomorrow.com\/2013\/10\/15\/sceptical-politicians-and-financial-crisis-both-factors-in-uk-climate-lethargy\/\">Report on presentation during National Ethical Investment Week<\/a> \u00a0Blue&amp;green tomorrow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Anderson notes how the Government&#8217;s introduction of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blueandgreentomorrow.com\/2013\/07\/19\/george-osborne-reveals-fracking-tax-breaks-as-campaigners-accuse-ministers-of-ignoring-risks\/\">tax breaks for shale gas<\/a>, it&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blueandgreentomorrow.com\/2013\/06\/04\/house-of-commons-energy-bill-decarbonisation-target-vote\/\">rejection of a 2030 decarbonisation target<\/a>\u00a0for electricity generation and support for both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blueandgreentomorrow.com\/2012\/03\/16\/pursuit-of-arctic-oil-is-profoundly-reckless\/\">exploitation of the Arctic<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blueandgreentomorrow.com\/2013\/08\/22\/uk-pumps-13-5bn-into-oil-and-gas-to-combat-rapidly-declining-production\/\">record investment in North Sea oil and gas<\/a>, are contrary to a sustainable economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Oct. 2013 Report on presentation during National Ethical Investment Week \u00a0Blue&amp;green tomorrow &#8230; Anderson notes how the Government&#8217;s introduction of\u00a0tax breaks for shale gas, it&#8217;s\u00a0rejection of a 2030 decarbonisation target\u00a0for electricity generation and support for both\u00a0exploitation of the Arctic\u00a0and\u00a0record investment in North Sea oil and gas, are contrary to a sustainable economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}