John Ashton: Fracking in England only possible if it is imposed
COMMENT: There is no need for fracking, anywhere in my country. There is no national interest case. It cannot happen by consent.
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John Ashton: We have too little democracy in the UK
COMMENT: Political expediency and commercial opportunism driving fossil fuel exploration, says UK’s former chief climate diplomat
John Ashton: Our weapon against fracking is the love of our land
COMMENT: The struggle against dirty energy is the same as the struggle against the Enclosures and the Clearances. The difference is: this one we’re going to win
Fracking: what is the British government trying to hide?
COMMENT: Decisions over the onshore drilling for gas and oil need to be taken with all the facts at our disposal, not pushed through Parliament in a rush
Shell’s climate change strategy: narcissistic, paranoid, and psychopathic
COMMENT: In an open letter to Shell’s Ben Van Beurden, the UK’s former top climate envoy says now is the time for him to show leadership
Seven stairs to Paris: A pathway to fixing climate change
COMMENT: Climate change is about politics, and we need wise leaders over the coming 11 months, says UK’s former chief climate diplomat
John Ashton: China needs to repair torn fabric of nature and society
COMMENT: Former chief UK climate diplomat says China must look to the earth to rediscover its dreams for the future
John Ashton: fracking is no sensible solution to climate change
COMMENT: A UK dash for shale gas will send all the wrong diplomatic signals at a time when clean energy investment is urgent
John Ashton: look to Paracelsus for effective climate action
UK’s former climate change diplomacy chief on how a medieval scholar changed the way a continent thought about life
John Ashton: climate change is like a Pink Floyd album
Full transcript of speech by former UK climate envoy John Ashton on why climate change is like a Pink Floyd album
John Ashton: climate change and political struggle
Former UK climate chief John Ashton on why the challenges posed by global warming can only be solved by pulling together
John Ashton: a winning climate coalition is waiting to be forged
Former UK climate envoy says low carbon industry and progressive politicians need to combine to build new political consensus on global warming
John Ashton Q&A: ‘The USA is still a climate follower, not a leader’
Former UK climate envoy answers RTCC readers’ questions on Obama, China, David Cameron, loss and damage and World Bank funding for coal plants
John Ashton: UK Treasury ‘cult’ blocking climate ambition
Respected climate diplomat calls on British Government to ditch neo-classical economic thinking and lead development of green economy
Climate change Q&A: ask John Ashton
Send your questions to the UK’s former climate change envoy – he’ll answer them on RTCC next week
Ashton: Help Obama sidestep Congress and sign UN climate deal
Efforts by the US to impose a voluntary global deal must be resisted, former UK climate ambassador John Ashton warns
Why you should be angry, and why anger isn’t enough
Former UK climate diplomat John Ashton calls on young people to re-engage in politics and find their “collective voice as a generation”
Q&A: John Ashton answers your climate change questions
Former chief climate change diplomat on UK Treasury, Canada, Kyoto, ‘legal nihilism’ at UNFCCC and why it’s time for a new model of economic growth
Climate science and politics – where two worlds collide
Former UK climate diplomat John Ashton says climate scientists must actively communicate their findings – but under certain conditions
John Ashton: US climate debate is about confidence and progress
UK’s former chief climate diplomat says USA still has time to lead low carbon revolution, but time is running out
COP18: Qatar organisers warned of efforts to derail climate talks
Leading climate diplomat John Ashton tells RTCC Qatari Presidency of the UN climate talks must be prepared to counter efforts to frustrate negotiations over the next two weeks
RTCC podcast: Climate change and the USA
On this month’s pod John Ashton & Tom Burke discuss climate change and the US elections, the UK’s barmy energy policy, South Korea’s green revolution & China’s low carbon leadership
UK will lose influence at UNFCCC if it fails to be honest over ambition
If British politicians treat their own climate targets like a joke, what hopes are there for an effective global binding emissions deal?
John Ashton: We can use China to drive global clean-tech growth
The Foreign Office’s chief climate change official urges private sector to use China as an ‘incubator’ for clean-technology development.