Sustainable/Net Zero Business Consultant: strategy, engagement & CPD, author of 5 books (amzn.to/1ReaAwl) & podcaster (bit.ly/3Rpc4KQ).
Joined March 2010
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Jan 26
If you missed 12½ Kick Ass Sustainability Ideas for 2026 last week, fear not! The whole session is now available on YouTube. Apply the ideas with the provided workbook and develop an action plan with out simple but powerful final exercise - enjoy!
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“In every transition, new technologies
replace the old, societies change, you get innovation and productivity leaps, and there are
winners and losers - and the losers lobby the government. But the change happens..."
~ Angela Francis, speaking at the National Emergency Briefing
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Gareth Kane retweeted
The Great Dartmoor Pony Cull Conspiracy of 2026 is total horseshit, in case you’re wondering. More below, if you want.
Jun 16
This is total madness from another unaccountable quango. The government must overrule Natural England and stop it immediately.
Keir Starmer is on his way to making his last acts in office the shameful underfunding of our military and the mass slaughter of Dartmoor ponies.
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A clip from my podcast discussion on the energy transition with Chris Smith (@renewablesmiffy) ~ listen to the end for the marmalade dropper re coal tech.
Full episode here: terrainfirma.co.uk/the-unsto…
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Gareth Kane retweeted
Jun 15
Gas is responsible for current high energy bills, not renewables. @uclnews says wind has saved billpayers £104bn since 2010. When Putin invaded Ukraine, Govt spent £44bn subsidising gas bills — while renewables on CfDs paid around £500m back to consumers. This year alone @CarbonBrief found that renewables have saved consumers £1.7bn in avoiding gas costs as we faced yet another geopolitical gas crisis. Agree we can work to reduce the cost of planning and grid but let's start with the facts on the cost of energy
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Jun 15
Why you shouldn’t tell people what to do in Sustainability – another shout out for the Theory Y model of change.
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Jun 12
If you're a regular on here, you've probably seen Chris Smith (@renewablesmiffy) pushing back on energy misinformation - a Sisyphean task. Meet the man behind the rebuttals as we talk through his career trajectory from coal to clean energy - full of gems!
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Jun 10
Sustainability at #PMQs where I summarise any environmental content at the UK Parliament's big weekly set piece. The exchanges will almost certainly be dominated by the horrific events in Belfast.
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Jun 10
Lib Dem MP asks about sewage discharges flooding a constituent's driveway, attacking Thames Water for inaction. PM promises action on that case but makes no wider comment.
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Jun 10
And that's it - no constituency railway station issue this week. It would be interesting to see the two DEFRA reports and find out whether the Government is deliberately sitting on them.
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Jun 10
I've been mulling on a point made by a member of the Sustainability Leadership Roundtable yesterday about choosing the messenger carefully. Who do we trust?
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Jun 9
Just finished facilitating a meeting of the Sustainability Leadership Roundtable and I am buzzing! Think I'll need a walk at lunchtime to come back down to earth. #lovethisjob
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Jun 9
Here's a clip from my fascinating conversation with Lauren Juliff of the Clean Growth Fund talking about why, in investing, future abatement potential is much more interesting than backward looking carbon footprints.
Full episode here: terrainfirma.co.uk/accelerat…
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Jun 8
Another blog where if you listen carefully, you can hear me grind my teeth. Is tackling climate change 'ideological'?
terrainfirma.co.uk/what-does…
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Jun 5
This week in the pod, I talk to Lauren Juliff of the Clean Growth Fund about going beyond ESG investment and backing the early stage entrepreneurs who are really going to disrupt value chains and make the world a better place.
terrainfirma.co.uk/accelerat…
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Gareth Kane retweeted
Electric cars now account for more than 1 in 4 new cars in the UK.
But…”nobody wants electric cars” 🤣
Apparently EVs are dead, nobody wants them, demand has collapsed, and the public has spoken.
The usual nonsense from people that pretend to have a clue, and are continuously proven wrong.
Meanwhile, May saw 43,931 battery electric vehicles registered in the UK, up 34.2% year-on-year.
That gave EVs a 27.3% market share, meaning more than 1 in every 4 new cars registered was fully electric.
Plug-in hybrids also grew by 23.9% to 22,167 registrations, taking another 13.8% of the market.
Combined, plug-in vehicles accounted for over 41% of all new car registrations.
But here’s the really awkward bit for the “nobody wants EVs” crowd…
Petrol registrations fell 7.1% to 66,223.
Diesel registrations fell 2.2% to just 7,622.
Diesel now represents a tiny 4.7% market share of the new car market.
Even petrol, despite still being the largest single category, continues to lose ground as buyers increasingly choose vehicles they can plug in.
But don’t let facts get in the way of a good Facebook comment section.
Imagine being the person that repeatedly says…
“Nobody wants electric cars.”
And being proven wrong every single month.
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Jun 4
Nonsense on stilts. China's coal use is in (slow) decline; Chinese car manufacturers actively planning production in UK factories.
‘The idea that you can help the environment by shutting down factories in the UK and moving them to coal-powered China, it’s obviously mad.’
Claire Coutinho blasts the government over its new net-zero target, as the Conservatives plan to table the Energy Bill amendment.
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Everybody has a view on the new Ferrari Luce EV, here's mine...
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