Tricia Hayes CB
Biography
Tricia Hayes was appointed Director General for Crime, Policing and Fire on 24 February 2020. The Crime, Policing and Fire Group (CPFG) is responsible for a wide of range of policies to keep our citizens safe, cut crime, protect the vulnerable, and to reform both the police and fire and rescue services to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
Career
Tricia has spent most of her career in the Department for Transport (
DfT) which she first joined in 1987. From 2016 to 2020 Tricia was Director General for Roads, Places and Environment leading work on transport’s contribution to climate change, roads, traffic, road safety, sustainable travel, bus travel and the freight sector. She also led the department’s work on road transport aspects of EU Exit.
Don’t believe hydrogen and nuclear hype – they can’t get us to net zero carbon by 2050
Don’t believe hydrogen and nuclear hype – they can’t get us to net zero carbon by 2050 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/16/hydrogen-nuclear-net-zero-carbon-renewables
Big industry players pushing techno-fixes are ignoring the only realistic solution to the climate crisis: renewables.
ow that the whole world seems to be aligned behind the goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, the nuclear industry is straining every sinew to present itself as an invaluable ally in the ambitious aim. Energy experts remain starkly divided on whether or not we can reach this global net zero target without nuclear power, but regardless, it remains a hard sell for pro-nuclear enthusiasts.
International tourism has clearly been hit hard by COVID-19. But despite the desperation of the travel and airline industries, people are already questioning whether it should ever return to pre-pandemic levels.
One who thinks not is Air New Zealand’s chief environmental adviser, Sir Jonathon Porritt. Increasing the price of long-haul flights to pay for greenhouse gas emissions, he said recently, would help end “thoughtless, heedless” tourism.
Porritt was responding to the latest report from Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton. Titled “Not 100% – but four steps closer to sustainable tourism”, one of its four main recommendations was for the introduction of a departure tax to offset the carbon emissions from international air travel.
Taxing long-haul flights isn t the answer to NZ s tourism woes
17 Mar, 2021 02:37 AM
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International tourism has clearly been hit hard by Covid-19. But despite the desperation of the travel and airline industries, people are already questioning whether it should ever return to pre-pandemic levels.
One who thinks not is Air New Zealand s chief environmental adviser, Sir Jonathon Porritt. Increasing the price of long-haul flights to pay for greenhouse gas emissions, he said recently, would help end thoughtless, heedless tourism.
Porritt was responding to the latest report from Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton. Titled Not 100% – but four steps closer to sustainable tourism , one of its four main recommendations was for the introduction of a departure tax to offset the carbon emissions from international air travel.
Jonathon Porritt s blog
by Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt is founder-director of not-for-profit sustainability organisation Forum for the Future, and an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development.
16/03/2021
In the foreword for edie s 2021 Sustainable Business Leadership report, Forum for the Future s founding director Jonathon Porritt outlines the urgency required from businesses to step in delivering ambitious strategies to create a sustainable future.
Step up and stop standing by. That was the call to action from Extinction Rebellion back in pre-Covid 2019. And in June that year, the UK became the first major UK economy to pass into law a net-zero by 2050 commitment. With civil society on one side, and Government (a Conservative Government at that) on the other, what else could companies do but step up?