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Author: Huw Williams and Jonathan Blanchard-Smith

Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios
9 December 2020in Decision making, Foresight, Futures, Policy making, Risk Management1by Huw Williams and Jonathan Blanchard-Smith

Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios

We’re hearing a lot from Government about “reasonable worst-case scenarios” at the moment. At first sight it seems sensible. We need to think beyond the “base case” or “central case”,…

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Climate crisis – some final thoughts
12 February 2020in Climate change, Futures, Trends0by Huw Williams and Jonathan Blanchard-Smith

Climate crisis – some final thoughts

Back in June 2019, we began our series of blog posts on the climate crisis. Now that we have examined each of the PESTLE categories, it’s time to reflect on…

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Climate Emergency and The Law
29 January 2020in Climate change, Futures0by Huw Williams and Jonathan Blanchard-Smith

Climate Emergency and The Law

In this post on the climate emergency, we turn attention to the law. To what extent can governments and carbon polluters be legally held to account for their actions? It…

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Climate Emergency – Transport Initiatives
2 October 2019in Foresight, Futures, Trends0by Huw Williams and Jonathan Blanchard-Smith

Climate Emergency – Transport Initiatives

In 2016, the transport sector contributed 27% of total EU-28 greenhouse gas emissions.  Transport emissions fell from 2008 to 2013, but have since climbed and are close to the 2007…

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Climate emergency – energy generation
4 September 2019in Climate change, Technology0by Huw Williams and Jonathan Blanchard-Smith

Climate emergency – energy generation

In previous posts we’ve looked at the impacts of global heating assuming we don’t do enough to mitigate it.  We’re now going to look at some of the technological solutions, first…

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