A gentler way

In the news over the weekend was a story about the audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change. It all started apparently with a man named E Bruce Harrison, the “father of environmental PR”, on an autumn day in 1992. A few months earlier, the international community had adopted the United Nations Framework…

We frequently read, in both news reports and expert publications, that energy accounts for around 75% of human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and food – or, to be more accurate, forestry, land use and agriculture (FLAG) – accounts for the remaining 25%. This seriously understates the importance of FLAG, with serious consequences. There are two…