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Over the next decades, governments, businesses and consumers across the globe will face a series of unprecedented energy challenges. Rising global population will be coupled with increased energy demand. This will require us to think innovatively about how to provide energy for all whilst seeking to mitigate the damaging effects of climate change and environmental catastrophes that can be caused by providing this energy to consumers.
Wind power's other untapped resource
This renewable energy source could provide a much needed boost to local economies.
Q&A with Stefan Bouzarovski
The New Statesman talks to Stefan Bouzarovski, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
Q&A with Jeremy Rifkin
The New Statesman talks to Jeremy Rifkin, economist, writer, political adviser and activist, about renewable energy and his new book, The Third Industrial Revolution.
BP profits rise sharply in Q4
Oil giant confirms increased dividend payments to shareholders after profits soar.
A very English revolution
Middle England feels betrayed by the coalition’s shake-up of planning rules – the biggest since the 1930s. Are the Tories ready to go to war with their own core vote?
Explosion at major French nuclear power site
A blast at a nuclear facility in Marcoule, southern France, has killed one person and injured four.
Gas fracking: the next threat to the planet
Unconventional gas extraction should not be part of our energy future.
Slumlands — filthy secret of the modern mega-city
Across the world, slums are home to a billion people. The rich elite want the shanty towns cleared, but residents are surprisingly determined not to leave.
Miliband's new energy policy could be a vote winner
A greener and cheaper approach would have significant appeal.
Gove’s stealthy school reforms could become as toxic as the NHS bill
The Education Secretary's free-market reforms to our school system are a political time bomb waiting to explode.
Moody’s blues, private-sector grief and another letter from Mervyn
The credit rating agency’s decision to put the UK on negative watch is a big embarrassment to the Chancellor. And joblessness is up again. Whatever will George do?
Let’s learn from Blair’s crimes, so we don’t repeat them in Syria
The warmongering and human rights abuses of the New Labour years seem forgotten by all but the likes of Gareth Peirce. Yet Blair’s legacy lingers on in Afghanistan and Iraq and is re-emerging in Syria and Iran.
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Q4 rise
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