Issues: Climate change and energy

Climate change and energy

SGR produces a range of outputs on the issue of 'Climate change and energy'. This covers climate change science, technological and policy responses to climate change, energy supply technologies (especially renewable energy and nuclear power), energy use and energy efficiency (including in transport and buildings), and related policy and lifestyle issues.

Climate change and military conflict

Presentation by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the AGM of the Movement for the Abolition of War.

9 November 2008
 

 

UK Renewable Energy Strategy: SGR Response

Submission to government consultation on UK Renewable Energy Strategy, September 2008
 

UK climate strategy – are we making progress?

Stuart Parkinson examines the UK’s record on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that official figures hide a lack of progress and highlighting the key reforms that need to be made.

Article from SGR Newsletter no. 36, autumn 2008
 

Out of their depth? Uncertainties in nuclear waste management

Rachel Western argues that the nuclear industry and the UK government are not properly considering the scientific evidence in their rush to ‘solve’ the problem of radioactive waste.

Article from SGR Newsletter no. 36, autumn 2008
 

Expanding renewable energy in the UK

Dave Andrews and Martin Quick give two perspectives on the potential for expanding the deployment of variable or intermittent renewable energy in the UK. In the first article, Andrews argues that the disadvantages of these types of technologies are much less than detractors claim while, in the second article, Quick outlines some innovative ways of expanding their deployment.

Two articles from SGR Newsletter no.36, autumn 2008
 

Reducing carbon emissions from housing

Kate Macintosh MBE outlines the environmental standards for new housing in the UK and argues that the bigger problems related to the quality of the existing housing stock are being neglected.

Article from SGR Newsletter 36, autumn 2008
 

Climate change – why it could be worse than the IPCC projections

Presentation given by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the Climate Forum, London; June 2008
 

Military R&D 85 times larger than renewable energy R&D

Stuart Parkinson and Chris Langley outline SGR’s latest research whose revelations include statistics from across the industrialised world showing the massive imbalance between government R&D spending for military purposes and that for social and environmental purposes.

Article for SGR Newsletter, No. 35, winter 2008
 

Could one Trident submarine cause 'nuclear winter'?

Philip Webber, SGR, analyses the latest research on the potential climatic impacts of nuclear war and demonstrates that the firepower of just one of the UK's Trident submarines could be devastating for the whole planet.

Article from SGR Newsletter, No. 35, winter 2008

 

Nuclear Power - Information resources from Scientists for Global Responsibility

Press release, 7 January 2008