If 2021 has taught us anything, it’s that time is up for business as usual.

There are many ways to have a ‘greener’ more ‘eco-friendly’ and ‘sustainable’ Christmas although most of them still rely on some level of consumption but what if you want to go further still? Rupert Read has some thoughts.

Boris Johnson told us at the start of Cop26 that it was ‘one minute to midnight’, but in that case, it’s now five minutes past midnight, writes Rupert Read

After a chaotic start to COP26, Professor Rupert Read from the University of East Anglia reports on events in Glasgow.

There were many worthy candidates for this year’s prize, including the winners, but unless we prize climate truth, climate justice and climate action sufficiently, everything else, including all other worthy causes, will be swept away.

Rupert Read is a professor of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, and the author of several books. In this article he argues that our political leaders can’t be relied upon to deliver at COP26, and inevitably change will be up to the people.