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The Reith Lectures part 1: Coming back to life

  • Posted on December 26, 2020May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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If you’ve been listening to this year’s Reith Lectures, delivered by ex-governor of the Bank of England, United Nations special envoy on climate finance and adviser to the UK Government for COP26 Dr Mark Carney,…

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The imminence of climate change and the peril it presents to life or serious injury – A defence.

  • Posted on December 11, 2019December 28, 2020
  • by andrew
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I will be appearing before the City of London Magistrates’ Court tomorrow, charged under S14 of the Public Order Act 1986. This is my defence:

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2050 – Is the UK Government’s target for net zero carbon emissions too late?

  • Posted on July 26, 2019December 28, 2020
  • by andrew
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If academics are good for anything (are they good for anything?), then it’s reading stuff that people are interested in (but don’t themselves have the time to read it), synthesising that stuff and presenting it…

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2050: Epitaph

  • Posted on June 27, 2019December 28, 2020
  • by andrew
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The UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) recently published its report Net Zero: The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming. If you’ve never heard of the CCC, it was established under the 2008 Climate Change Act…

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Should the WHO declare climate change a Public Health Emergency of International Concern?

  • Posted on April 9, 2019May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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In preparation for this year’s World Health Assembly (I will be attending again this year as a WHO ‘watcher’ with the Peoples Health Movement), I’ve been reading a couple of documents produced by the WHO…

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Global health and climate change: A call to action.

  • Posted on March 20, 2019December 28, 2020
  • by andrew
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Planetary health expert Howard Frumkin tells us that there isn’t a single global challenge that can be resolved within just one discipline. “If you’re not working outside of your disciplinary comfort zone most of the…

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Global health and climate change: A reply to Haines and Ebi

  • Posted on February 22, 2019June 3, 2021
  • by andrew
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Global health episode IV: A new hope

  • Posted on November 20, 2018October 25, 2021
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Global health rebellion: when hope dies, action begins

  • Posted on November 3, 2018May 1, 2021
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Global warming caused this Summer’s heatwave – there, I’ve said it!

  • Posted on August 3, 2018May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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