Gareth Kane

If you missed 12½ Kick Ass Sustainability Ideas for 2026 last week, fear not! The whole session is now available on YouTube. Apply the ideas with the provided workbook and develop an action plan with out simple but powerful final exercise - enjoy! terrainfirma.co.uk/on-demand-12%c…

Driving Sustainability Forwards – some reflections on my recent collaboration with the North East Automotive Alliance and the North East's auto value chains – lots of fun, lots to learn! terrainfirma.co.uk/the-best-way-t…

Wow 90.3% renewables on a 113% generation 🤯 As we’re generating more than we need we’re exporting 9.2% to Europe and refilling pumped storage with another 4.2% 🙂

Over the last year I've been releasing spoken word versions of my 10 Rules for Corporate Sustainability on the pod. And here's the 10th and last rule: build a climate resilient value chain. As always there are opportunities as well as challenges - enjoy! terrainfirma.co.uk/build-a-climat…

Around the world, surging energy prices are sparking new interest in clean tech, including EVs, heat pumps and solar panels bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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The UK’s renewables power output hit a record on Wednesday, with a surge in wind and solar generation helping to blunt the impact of the Middle East war on power prices bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Next Wednesday we're hosting our legendary Green Jujitsu webinar (£). Find out how to use the only Sustainability engagement/change approach that delivers results and unlocks your Sustainability Strategy. Hint: it isn't a better poster. terrainfirma.co.uk/green-academy/…

People are taking appropriate action despite the torrent of misinformation in the media...

@renewablesmiffy or the difference between disruption to construction and disruption to operation

Someone needs to explain capacity factors to Jonathon.

Just had some spam offering low interest loans to cover VAT payments - like a dictionary definition of a business death spiral.

@_TheGMan @hugorifkind Couldn't win in Caerphilly despite campaigning against the 20mph policy which the winners, Plaid Cymru, supported. Lost to the Greens in Denton & Gorton. It's one of a number of policies that limits their vote share. Badenoch is mad to try and fish in the same small pool of votes

@GarethKane @hugorifkind Ok well Reform are pledging to scrap it completely and have been 10 points ahead for most of the last 2 years so not sure where that leaves your theorem.

During your PMQs show, @hugorifkind, you said “Net Zero isn’t popular” a couple of times. Polls show it *is* popular outside the Westminster bubble, despite all the noise and misinformation. I call this the Uxbridge Fallacy. shows.acast.com/the-net-zero-b…

@hugorifkind PS: love the show, just grind my teeth when Net Zero and associated stuff comes up - Libby Purvis being a serial Dunning-Kruger type offender.

@GarethKane Forget the media. Polls are clear. The EV mandate is not popular (although it should be). Either way, I don't think it's mad for Starmer to be politically canny. He would certainly lose votes for scrapping Net Zero. But he probably loses some banging on about it, too.

@_TheGMan @hugorifkind Absolutely. But conversely no correlation means no causation - ie diluting Net Zero did him no good.

@GarethKane @hugorifkind Correlation is not causation.

@_TheGMan @hugorifkind They certainly didn't go up after he watered down the EV mandate. Badenoch has hardly had a bounce from disowning Net Zero either, has she?

@GarethKane @hugorifkind Imagine thinking that's why his ratings fell.

@hugorifkind As I mentioned in the podcast, Rishi Sunak's ratings fell when he weakened Boris Johnson's Net Zero policies (ie the EV mandate) and never recovered. Sadiq Khan was returned despite ULEZ, Plaid won Caerphilly while supporting 20mph. The media say these policies are unpopular...

@GarethKane You're absolutely right. Stupid shorthand, sorry. Fuel duty isn't popular, banning petrol cars isn't popular, prioritising net zero over the cost of living isn't popular, and so on. But nebulously, net zero itself is. I'll be more careful.

This is very good - clear eyed and logical.

And that's it, a bit of 💥 for once. Both PM and LOTO in difficult situations - PM bound by legislation not to opine on the gas fields as it is a quasi-judicial process, LOTO given her u-turns on the war and Net Zero. We got more fossil-fuelled heat than renewably-powered light.

Independent MP asks about sewage discharges by Thames Water and the role of the regulator, Oft. PM says action is being taken.

Sustainability at #PMQs - my round up of environmental content at the UK Parliament's big weekly set piece.