A couple of tangential issues (cladding, reshoring of the fertiliser industry) but nothing really substantial this week - predictably.

In response to a softball question from his own benches on housing, PM suggests brownfield developments will get automatic approval.

In response to a softball question from his own benches on housing, PM suggests brownfield developments will get automatic approval.

Lib Dem leader asks for the tax windfall from the Strait of Hormuz crisis be used for bus, rail and road fuel subsidies. PM dismisses the idea of a tax windfall.

As expected, the main PM/LOTO exchanges focussed on the Mandelson affair.

[While we're waiting, Wales Questions is dominated by rail issues]

Sustainability at #PMQs (Olly, Olly, Olly edition): will there be any environmental content given the latest convulsions of the Scandelson affair? If there is, I'll post it here 👇

Getting the Sustainability Basics Right - Terra Infirma This session covers all the simple things, from quick wins to financing Sustainability projects, you need to get right to meet your Net Zero targets.

Shameless plug for next week's webinar (£): covers all the small tweaks that can make a big difference to your Sustainability programme:
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"You never buy ANYTHING because it is Sustainable" - a clip of my lively podcast discussion with Frédéric Dalsace of IMD. Full episode here www.terrainfirma.co.uk/does-sustain...

Why Sustainability Projects Fail (and it is YOUR fault) - Terra Infirma Here’s a (lightly disguised) anecdote I heard last week: “I worked really hard on this project, did all the research, polished my arguments, presented it to the boss and… nothing. Nothing happened. Wh...

Do your Sustainability projects fail? If so, don't blame others. If you want to make change happen, you need to, er, change the way you approach change...

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America’s power supply just flipped in surprising direction Renewables generated more than one-third of America's electricity in March 2026, overtaking gas for the first time, new data shows.

#Renewables generated more than 1/3 of America's #electricity in March, overtaking gas for the 1st time and marking the cleanest month on record for the nation’s #power supply. MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram views this development as a result of long-term investment.

Global Briefing: China signals intent to double clean energy by 2035
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A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market

New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader

Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here

And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

Does Sustainability Sell? with Frédéric Dalsace, IMD - Terra Infirma 10 years ago, Paul Polman and his baby, the Unilever Sustainability Living Plan, were the rock stars of corporate Sustainability. But in 2019, Polman was asked to step down and the Plan came to an end...

This week on the pod, I'm joined by Professor Frédéric Dalsace of IMD and co-author of a new book, Clean Winners. The book posits that many organisations are going about Sustainability in the wrong way. It was quite a robust discussion in places!
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Just a snippet of my conversation with Green Business pioneer Nick Brown talking about how Paramo clothing mimics dog hair to keep you dry. Full episode here: www.terrainfirma.co.uk/interview-gr... #biomimicry #ecodesign #outdoors

With the local elections looming, #PMQs was predictably dominated by constituency issues. All mentions of energy were limited to cost of living issues and the responses were pretty much boilerplate. Not much of interest - disappointing given the turmoil of the weeks since the last session.

Lib Dem MP asks about a local nature reserve to secure which cost more due to a proposed development.

Couple of transport related Qs: a ban on the sale of 'illegal ebikes' and the traditional constituency railway station Q.

DUP raises protests about fuel costs (NI is very exposed to heating oil). PM mentions relief for the latter and says we need to de-escalate in the Gulf.

PM makes a couple of references to addressing energy costs in responses to questions from Lib Dem leader Ed Davey and NI Alliance MP Sorcha Eastwood.

Main PM/Leader of the Opposition exchanges get mired in the welfare/warfare debate triggered by Lord Robertson's intervention yesterday. No mention of the ongoing oil crisis.

Sustainability at #PMQs (if sunbeams were weapons edition): my summary of the environmental content (if any) during the UK Parliament's big weekly set piece. Irritations get a 🛎️

Why the Path to Sustainability isn't a Straight One Minimum viable services, tipping points and other non-linearities to make your job more complicated.

In this month's edition of The Low Carbon Agenda, I talk about non-linearities in the world of delivering Sustainability and suggest some ways of dealing with them. Sign up to the mailing list and get food for thought in your inbox every month.
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The view from under my duvet... - Terra Infirma First blog for a bit – last week I was walloped by what I thought was a bit of a cold at first, but escalated I ended up in bed for most of 3 days, just crawling out from under my duvet to edit last w...

I lost most of the last week to a rather brutal bout of manflu. The old brain is still a bit woolly, so my first blog back is an appropriately discursive amble through what I've been mulling on from the comfort of my duvet. www.terrainfirma.co.uk/the-view-fro...

The usual 6-monthly pleasant book royalty cheque surprise. I mean Richard Osman can sleep easy, but, hey, I'll take it. 2½ years ago, I was going to start a new book and arranged some interviews for fresh case studies, but that evolved into the Podcast. Time for another go? 🤔

This week on the pod, green business pioneer Nick Brown, founder of Nikwax Ltd, Paramo and now Green Levers talks us through his career from garden shed to handing his companies over the employees, with a cool bit of biomimicry thrown in for good measure!
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In this clip from the pod, Laura Elms of Forest Bikes talks about why some shared mobility services succeed and some don't. Full episode here: www.terrainfirma.co.uk/micromobilit...

Micromobility, the Sharing Economy and Giant Sequoias with Laura Elms, Forest Bikes - Terra Infirma This week I’m joined on the pod by Laura Elms of London public hire company Forest Bikes. We talk about why some bike/scooter hire schemes work and some fail (Mobike owe me 50p!), the challenges of di...

This week on the pod, I'm joined by Laura Elms, Sustainability Manager of London public hire company Forest Bikes. Saddle up and enjoy the ride!
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OOPS! GB News owner Paul Marshall tried to rebut Christian leaders, who criticised his channel's dodgy climate coverage…but in the process he made 25 dodgy claims of his own 🫠

Impressively, he packed the 25 dodgy claims into just 340 words 👏

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The 'going it alone' on Net Zero fallacy - Terra Infirma Returning to the outbreak of carbon culture wars, one of the memes used by the anti-Net Zero commentators is that the UK is ‘going it alone’. It sounds like a strong argument: why should we decarbonis...

One argument put forward by UK Net Zero sceptics is that the UK is somehow 'going it alone' on decarbonisation, pointlessly sacrificing ourselves while rest of the world happily burn, baby, burns. But does this claim stand up to any scrutiny whatsoever? www.terrainfirma.co.uk/the-going-it...