The UK is facing an energy challenge: how do we achieve an 80% cut in our carbon emissions by 2050, while maintaining a secure supply of energy at an affordable price? Part of my role as Chief Scientific Advisor for …
Affordable, reliable energy is critical to our economy, to our national security, and to family budgets. Our challenge is how to ensure energy remains the backbone of our economy while we transform to a low carbon system. We are doing …
Climate change is a severe and growing threat to poverty reduction and development in Africa and Asia. It is affecting people’s livelihoods, businesses and economic growth. In Africa, the average annual temperature is expected to increase by 2°C by 2100 …
Whitbread is the owner of some household name brands including Premier Inn, Costa Coffee and Beefeater restaurants. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, ‘Good Together’, underpins all our business integrated thinking and aims to make us a force for good …
DECC’s priorities are clear: keeping bills as low as possible for hardworking families and businesses and powering the economy while decarbonising in the most cost-effective way. These are a challenging and critical set of objectives. DECC has a long term …
Today’s Queen’s Speech sets out our early priorities for the new Parliament. DECC’s priorities are clear: keeping the lights on and powering the economy; keeping bills low for families and businesses and getting a climate deal in Paris this year. …
With negotiations over a new global climate deal taking place in Paris this December, it is more important than ever that the world’s leader’s work together to demonstrate their commitment to combatting climate change. Above all, that means the leading …
Life isn't always simply good or bad, true or false or black or white, and it turns out the same can be said for social media evaluation. We’re often seeking to measure the positive or negative sentiment of what people …
I became UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary in February 2012 – that makes me the longest serving Minister with this portfolio for 25 years. In this time, I have learnt one lesson above all else: you can only make …
DECC’s energy modelling tool, the 2050 calculator, has achieved notable success in the UK and is becoming increasingly influential overseas. It is because of its growing international role that I recently found myself on a whistle stop tour of Vietnam, …