The real revolution in electric vehicles… May 13, 2019 | City Talk Electric vehicles (EVs) have reached a clear inflection point. Product quality has improved and consumer availability is expanding rapidly. Perhaps most importantly, the cost of electric car ownership is finally approaching parity with traditional combustion engine cars. The colourful stories within the industry have also helped generate interest: the spectacular and turbulent growth story of [...]
Labour might ban London-listed companies from stock exchange over climate change targets May 10, 2019 London-listed companies could be thrown off the stock exchange for not doing enough on climate change under new plans which are being drawn up by Britain’s Labour party, it was revealed today. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said today his party would delist companies which do not have plans to combat climate change. Read more: Britain [...]
To secure our future, make climate change risk reporting mandatory May 9, 2019 Twenty years ago, during a seminar for my management degree at the LSE, I raised my hand to ask a question about corporate social responsibility, and my classmates looked at me with puzzled expressions, as if I was rather off-topic. Gone was the 1960s radicalism of the institution, and instead chasing the highest-paying banking internship [...]
Extinction Rebellion deletes ‘misleading’ prison advice that told protesters to practise yoga May 3, 2019 Climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion has removed its prison guide from its website after it was criticised by civil rights activists for being misleading and outdated. The environmental group encouraged activists to get arrested during two weeks of disruption in London last month. Read more: Extinction Rebellion hates capitalism, but they wouldn't exist without [...]
Climate change protesters glue themselves to London City Hall May 3, 2019 Protesters have targeted London City Hall today in an alleged act of dissent against Sadiq Khan’s climate change policies. Read more: Climate change protesters target Bank of England rate-setters Conservative London Assembly member and local councillor Susan Hall tweeted an image of two people this morning, with their hands glued to the doors of the [...]
Climate change protesters target Bank of England MPC meeting May 2, 2019 Climate activists protested outside the Bank of England this morning calling for the institution to go green, ahead of the release of its inflation report this afternoon. Demonstrators from Positive Money and Fossil Free London urged the central bank to make its quantitative easing programme environmentally friendly by stopping asset purchases in high-carbon sectors and [...]
It’s time to stop arguing about expanding Heathrow – and get building May 2, 2019 Thankfully for the UK economy, the High Court yesterday quashed a challenge brought against the government’s decision to expand Heathrow Airport. No one questions the need for scrutiny. Indeed, detailed consideration for how to manage the impact of the expansion on local people – which for some will be significant – lies ahead through the [...]
Prepare for take off: Heathrow airport expansion cleared by High Court May 1, 2019 The government today won a legal battle that had sought to stop its proposed £14bn expansion of Heathrow Airport. Read more: Revenue dips at Heathrow despite record passenger numbers Campaigners trying to block a third runway at the UK's biggest airport lost the High Court challenge after the court found that transport secretary Chris Grayling's airport national policy [...]
Blockchain technology promises to change the world, but so far it has delivered very little May 1, 2019 Last month, I attended a debate in the Houses of Parliament, not on the legalities of the ever so tedious withdrawal agreement, but on cryptocurrency and blockchain. At first, I was surprised that a discussion on these topics only lasted an hour and a half considering that, although blockchain technology powers cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, [...]
Extinction Rebellion climate change protesters want to destroy the UK’s financial sector May 1, 2019 The founder of Extinction Rebellion has ambitions to upend the UK’s financial system after her organisation targeted the City in two weeks of London protests. Gail Bradbrook wants to provoke a “mass refusal” to pay off loans and mortgages in a bid to throw London’s financial district into disarray following action that saw climate change [...]