Nigel Howard
Nigel Howard is an expert in Life Cycle Assessment and Energy Use in Buildings. He is a former Director of the UK Centre for Sustainable Construction and a former Vice President of the US Green Building Council, pioneering environmental rating systems for buildings and communities. He founded the Edge Environment Consultancy in Manly and the convenor of the Northern Beaches Climate Action Network, comprising over 50 climate groups.
Nigel's recent articles
13 June 2022
Are Labor just coalition lite on climate?
Australian voters were ecstatic to be rid of the Coalition, but have we jumped out of the frying pan into the fire on climate?
16 January 2022
Environment 2022: let's put the blah blah behind us and demand change
The cheery end-of-year messages from climate activist groups didnt resonate with me. The reality is that weve run out of time for dangerously comforting delusions about our achievements.
16 August 2021
The "Green Hydrogen" myth. It is a delusion
Are you also being swamped with optimistic articles about how essential it is for Australia to be a leader in greenhydrogen? Greenhydrogen is being spruiked as essential to our decarbonised economic future and as a strategic decarbonised export opportunity.
8 July 2021
Carbon Offsets are a Delusion
Any government, corporation, industry or nation, that is relying on carbon offsets to justify claims to be Net Zero is relying on bogus accounting looking at the credits whilst sweeping the debits under the carpet.
23 May 2021
Myopic thinking in Australia on electric vehicles and renewable power
Everyones looking at the transition to renewable power but ignoring another massive transition that has huge implications for the grid - the transition to electric vehicles. Looked at together changes the story.
8 February 2021
Just a sliver of a chance: the uncomfortable truth of insufficient climate action
We must stop celebrating trivial wins in this war of cataclysmic consequences. The pretence that we are making a significant difference may make us feel better but it lets us settle into the complacent delusion that one day someone will sort it out in time.