18-19 July 2008 Copenhagen 2009: Last Chance Saloon at the Annual Conference of the Green Economics Institute, Mansfield College, Oxford

15-16 October 2008 Why public policy on seeking to match the rising demand for travel must be reversed at 32nd National Transport Conference, London, Conference on Developing and Delivering Transport Policy.

16 October 2008 Ensuring future life on Earth: can we cut carbon emissions sufficiently? Keynote speech at the Great Carbon Crunch Summit on a United Industries Response to the Green Agenda in the Built Environment, Kings Place Conference Centre, London.

17 October 2008 Climate change – urban change Keynote speech at Metrex Conference on Climate Change – Urban Change, City Hall, London.

• Daylight saving reform
  The Conservative Party is currently considering whether to include in its manifesto for the next General Election to move the UK’s current time zone forward by one hour, which would coincidentally align it with mainland Europe. The reasons for doing so would be to derive all the benefits, with few drawbacks, established in my reports.

• 30 June 2008
  Carbon offsetting – enabling device or conscience opiate
  Paper presented at the meeting Carbon Reduction and Health, organised by the BMJ, the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health and the Faculty of Public Health.

• 24 June 2008
  Healthy environments for children
  Panelist at this seminar held at the Smith Institute.

• 4 June 2008 
  Debate on carbon offsetting
  Debate in Brussels as part of European Green Week with Tanguy de Monceau, managing co-founder of CO2logic, a firm helping companies go 'carbon-neutral'.

• 2 June 2008
  Carbon currency
  Live one-hour interview on National Public Radio on the subject of carbon currency, broadcast in Austin, Texas.

• 5 March 2008
  The US paperback edition of How We Can Save the Planet: Preventing Global Climate Catastrophe (with Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan) was published by Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin's Press. ISBN 13: 978-0-312-35206-6.

• 28 February 2008
  BBC Radio 4's PM and on BBC 24 
  Inteviews on the dangers of exaggerating the environmental benefits of discouraging the use of plastic bags.