Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
14 December 2013

Bursting the Bubble of Carbon Finance

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The idea of a carbon bubble first came to my attention when I was researching a submission to the Environmental Audit Committee's Inq...
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4 November 2013

A New Carbon Budgeting Tool

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A guest post from Aubrey Meyer of the Global Commons Institute In the light of the positive attention to 'Contraction and Conve...
6 August 2013

No Fracking Way

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I try not to be too party political on this blog, but it will hardly have escaped notice that I am the Green Party's Economics Speaker...
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5 August 2013

Climate Change and Cognitive Dissonance

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The most recent edition of the British Social Attitudes survey has some interesting findings for those of us struggling with the cognitive d...
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5 January 2013

Evolution become Conscious

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Following up on my earlier post about 'joining the evolution', Michael Dunwell, my fellow green economist from the Forest of Dea...
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23 November 2012

Life without the Car

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For my generation the car represents freedom and I am struggling to evolve. I spent an exhausting six weeks without my car some years ago. I...
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9 July 2012

Climate Justice

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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is to be congratulated on funding a range of research programmes that tackle head on the justice aspects of ...
18 June 2012

Damned Lies and Carbon Statistics

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What a contrast there is between the attention paid to the first Rio conference and the low profile of the 20-year follow-up which comes to ...
7 June 2012

Flying Down to Rio

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World leaders are gearing up for their trips to the global environmental conference in Rio later this month. With so much bad news around wh...
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11 December 2011

Make the Rich Pay for their Emissions

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An excellent funding programme from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation into the social impacts of policies to address climate change is beginnin...
10 May 2011

Will the UK Abandon its Climate Targets?

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During the past year we have seen the painful exposure of the political strategy of a party that has thrived by promising all things to all ...
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2 April 2011

If you want to save the species, get political

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Is has become increasingly apparent during the past couple of years there is an inability amongst a wide range of people in politics and med...
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12 March 2011

Why Are Nuclear Reactors Like Dangerous Dogs?

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Across the world we are waiting to find out whether Fukushima is to join the list of nuclear disaster zones: a place which, once unfamiliar,...
7 January 2011

No Stabilisation without Escalation

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Here's something unusual: an opportunity to agree with the Tories. Media discussion has returned to the issue of the damaging results of...
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11 November 2010

Improving the Climate for Business

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The history of the fuel-duty escalator in the UK was a chequered one. Rather than energy policy being determined in the public good, and wit...
30 August 2010

Where Scepticism Meets Denial

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I have recently had two arguments with intelligent colleagues about whether we really need to act on carbon emissions. I think it would be f...
1 July 2010

Kevin Rudd: My Part in His Downfall

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This is my title but, as you will see from this guest post by Clive Spash, a not entirely inappropriate one. Kevin Rudd may come to be seen ...
18 April 2010

Return of the Politician?

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I have just returned from my annual jaunt to teach green economics to students in the Czech Republic. At first I was rather smug about my de...
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3 December 2009

Shooting the Messenger

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As the political and economic implications of climate change become clearer, the response from the politicians and the corporate elite who d...
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2 November 2009

Bloated Economic System Produces More Hot Air

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If you have, like me, been wondering how climate change can so suddenly shift from being a consequence of a bloated and over-industrialised ...
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