‘Net zero’, I predict, will be Environmental Phrase of the Year for 2021. It is easily misread as ‘not zero’, which is good in a way, because de facto they often mean the same thing. My NY resolution this year – which I’m hoping will last longer than usual, i.e. at least until the second…

In spite of the low quality reports currently in circulation – funded by manufacturers of petrol and diesel cars – about the environmental drawbacks of electric vehicles, most academics, industry experts and the Committee on Climate Change see them as essential if we are going to decarbonise transport. Not having a car at all is,…