Keith Baker

Research Associate in Sustainable Urban Environments, Glasgow Caledonian University

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IPCC report: global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C – we need deeds not words

The report’s conclusion that staying below 2°C this century will only happen if emissions reach net zero by 2050 is well publicised. But there is one, rather more urgent addendum to that: global emissions must peak some time in the middle of this decade. In other words, within the next few years.

August 9, 2021

Electricity is a Rip-Off – We Need a Truly Radical Intervention in the Energy Market

Yes, you can regulate markets, but that requires a regulator with both sufficient teeth and the nerve to use them, and one which does not believe that switching suppliers is the answer to all its problems.

August 23, 2017