Fiona Harvey

Europe, London, United Kingdom

Writing about the environment full-time since 2004. Seen a lot of environment since then. All tweeting is personal. In the Woman's Hour Power List 2020.

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Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing

4 days ago | msn.com | Fiona Harvey |Jillian Ambrose

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Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing

4 days ago | msn.com | Fiona Harvey |Jillian Ambrose

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Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey |Jillian Ambrose

The owner of the Drax wood-burning power station should be forced to disclose full details of its tree consumption, campaigners have argued, as MPs review the billions in renewables subsidies the North Yorkshire plant receives. A delegated legislation committee will decide on Monday whether to pass the government’s plans to extend billpayer-funded subsidies to the country’s biomass power generators, of which Drax is by far the biggest.
World faces new danger of ‘economic denial’ in climate fight, Cop30 head says

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey

The world is facing a new form of climate denial – not the dismissal of climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be reorganised to fight the crisis, the president of global climate talks has warned.
Don’t cut £13.2bn warm homes pledge over winter fuel payments, Labour told

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey

Plans to reinstate the winter fuel payment will be undermined if the government presses ahead with mooted cuts to home insulation upgrades, dozens of charities and experts have warned ahead of the forthcoming spending review. Labour pledged before entering government to prioritise plugging the leaks in the country’s draughty homes as a way of reducing household bills and wasted energy.
Global copper supply projected to fall 30% short of demand by 2035, IEA warns

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey

Demand for copper, needed for the transition to a low-carbon world, will outstrip supply within the next decade, according to the global energy watchdog. Supplies of the metal, a key component of every form of electrical energy system at present, will fall 30% short of the amount required by 2035 if nothing is done, analysis by the International Energy Agency predicts. Fatih Birol, the executive director of the IEA, said: “This will be a major challenge.
Only strong action on emissions can restore economic stability, UN climate chief says

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey

The climate crisis has raised the price of commodities and exacerbated famine – and only strong action on greenhouse gas emissions can restore economic stability, the UN’s climate chief has said. Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, was speaking in Panama, where recent years of drought drove the water to perilous lows that disrupted international trade.
Poor building standards add £1,000 to energy bills of new homes, analysis finds

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey

People living in newly built homes are being hit with energy bills that are nearly £1,000 a year higher than need be because of the poor standards to which they have been constructed. Occupants of homes built in the past seven years have paid about £5bn more in energy bills than they would have if regulations requiring new homes to be low-carbon had not been scrapped in 2016, according to analysis seen by the Guardian.
MP to launch bill to target superyachts, private jets and fossil fuel producers

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey

Fossil fuel companies and their shareholders and owners of superyachts and private jets should have to pay into a fund for flood defences and home insulation, according to a private member’s bill to be launched on Thursday.
Tory shadow energy minister claims 2050 net zero goal ‘not based on science’

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Helena Horton |Fiona Harvey

The Conservative party’s energy spokesperson has attacked leading climate scientists as biased and claimed Kemi Badenoch could take the UK out of the Paris climate agreement. Andrew Bowie, the acting shadow secretary for energy, told the Guardian that the target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – passed into law by Theresa May – was “arbitrary” and “not based on science”.