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Roger Harrabin

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Roger Harrabin is an energy and environment analyst and a former BBC correspondent

July 2025

  • Two police officers detain a man during the clashes.

    Dale Vince calls for Battle of the Beanfield to be included in Orgreave policing inquiry

    Ecotricity founder was part of new-age convoy heading to Stonehenge in 1985 when more than 500 people were arrested

June 2025

  • Satellite image of a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events

    Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, study says

April 2024

  • A 3D rendering of dark solar panels and wind turbines alongside a modular battery energy storage system

    Battery life
    Salt, air and bricks: could this be the future of energy storage?

    Start-ups turn to heat over batteries and are aiming to industrialise the practice

November 2023

  • Sun rising over the sea showing the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm turbines in the sea off the South Coast of England, UK. Wind power at sea.<br>2FJX1TC Sun rising over the sea showing the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm turbines in the sea off the South Coast of England, UK. Wind power at sea.

    double quotation markDoes the way we talk about the climate crisis numb people with fear, rather than energising them?

    Roger Harrabin
    A Cop28 speaker says phrases such as ‘green economy’ turn voters off – and Labour has already reframed its language, says energy and environment analyst Roger Harrabin

October 2023

  • A tunnel boring machine at the HS2 site near Old Oak Common in west London.

    How HS2 waste clay could be conjured into concrete to cut emissions

  • A handmade red and black sign bearing the number 20 and the word "plenty" fixed to a fence next to a road.

    double quotation markThe Tory attack on 20mph speed limits is already a losing battle

    Roger Harrabin

July 2023

  • ‘What is the use of a net zero policy if it relies in part on planting trees that may crackle in wildfire?’ Firefighters tackle wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes, 25 July 2023.

    double quotation markWhat frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are

    Roger Harrabin
  • University of Wolverhampton School of Architecture and Built Environment.

    Riba launches Reinvention prize to encourage refurbishment over demolition

June 2023

  • Construction work on a tunnel for the HS2 high-speed rail line in the Colne Valley

    Halt new roads and developments adding to emissions, advisers to tell UK government

    Committee on Climate Change report likely to recommend ending road-building programme

March 2023

  • Gary Lineker during the FA Cup clash between Manchester City and Burnley on Saturday.

    double quotation markStop kicking the BBC on bias. A right turn was needed, but now it’s gone too far

    Roger Harrabin
    The corporation was left-leaning, but now it is terrified of attacks from the right. And that’s the biggest threat as it strives for impartiality, says the writer and former BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin

November 2022

  • Forest wildfire near Kyuyorelyakh village, eastern Siberia, August 2021

    Why scientists are using the word scary over the climate crisis

    The former BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin has spent his career talking to scientists. Now they’re telling him they’re scared of what they’re seeing

January 2017

  • Tuticorin thermal power station near the port of Thoothukudi on the Bay of Bengal, southern India. The plant is said to be the first industrial scale example of carbon capture and utilisation (CCU).

    Indian firm makes carbon capture breakthrough

    Carbonclean is turning planet-heating emissions into profit by converting CO2 into baking soda – and could lock up 60,000 tonnes of CO2 a year

July 2015

  • Climate change conference<br>epa01201633 UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer (L) covers his face with his hands as he sits next to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) on the UN Climate Change Conference in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, 15 December 2007. Ban Ki-moon expresses his disappointment about the lack of progress and urged delegates to quickly approve a compromise plan to launch negotiations for a new global warming pact. EPA/MAST IRHAM

    double quotation markIs it ok for scientists to weep over climate change?

    Roger Harrabin
    Roger Harrabin: The devastating impact CO2 emissions are having on oceans recently brought one professor to tears during a radio interview. But does such passion validate or weaken science in the audience’s eyes?

September 2014

  • Friends of the Earth handing out anti-nuclear material at Oxford Circus in 1980 – the group's argument against nuclear has moved on from fears over radiation

    Environment blog
    Friends of the Earth's shift on nuclear should be celebrated, not denied

    Roger Harrabin: The green group’s opposition is now less ideological and more functional, and that’s a sign of maturity

August 2014

  • Centre for Alternative Technology -CAT- with new WISE building (Wales Centre for Sustainable Education) on the right, Machynlleth, Powys, Wales, 12 June 2010.

    Turning a slate quarry green: 40 years of Centre for Alternative Technology

    Welsh hippies ushered in an era of sustainable living well before the world had woken up to climate change

October 2003

  • Scared silly

    The public - and politicians - are being panicked by stories of health risks that are unlikely to affect them, research out this week claims. By Roger Harrabin

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