Net zero and greenwashing electricity
It's about time the government and the regulators took a good hard look at so-called green and renewables-only electricity contracts. Consumers – you and I – might want to do the right thing, and buy ...
19 Aug 202110min
The EU leads on climate change – again
The new EU climate change package sets the pace for others to try to match in the run-up to COP26. It has a central architecture, built around carbon pricing. The two key components are the widening o...
27 Juli 202110min
COP26 – time to get real about fossil fuels
With just 29 years to go to the 2050 target date, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has done a great service in making a stab at the scale of the changes needed to tackle climate change. Assuming ...
13 Juli 202111min
Net zero: keeping our homes warm without frying the planet
We are not short of ambitious carbon targets. We have a 78% reduction target for 2035 – just 14 years away – and 100% by 2050. So far, the focus has been on low-carbon electricity generation and elect...
18 Juni 202111min
Trade - is free trade fair?
Post BREXIT, the first trade deal has been deliberately designed to put grit in the wheels of trade with the EU. Now comes India and Australia and the US looms, all part of the new Global Britain. As ...
28 Maj 202111min
Net zero - why we need a carbon border tax
It is simply not good enough to reduce terrestrial carbon production emissions to net zero by 2050 on a unilateralist basis, and to expect that this means we stop causing climate change. It doesn’t. I...
11 Maj 202111min
COP26 - too much hype, too little substance
The hype around COP26 is getting out of hand. The excitement is palpable - the US and China, and then the other world’s leaders are all, if one believes the spin, going to come up with targets that a...
22 Apr 202110min
Net zero - is economic growth possible?
Is economic growth possible? Is it even desirable? Lots of environmentalists think we have to get off the growth conveyor belt, seeing it as a road to environmental ruin. They see limited natural reso...
29 Mars 20218min
