US Mash-Up May Save Obama from Showdown with Congress
Polling shows that the US public is becoming more concerned about climate change and more inclined to support measures that prevent it. A recent study by Duke university shows that support for...
View ArticleDo You Hear the People Sing? EU ETS Backers have Become Les Miserables
When cap-and-trade was introduced as the primary policy tool to drive emission reductions in Europe in 2005, it marked something of a policy revolution. From the ancien regime of command-and-control...
View ArticleEU 2030 Shows Best of Bureaucrats
I’m finding talk of 2030 a little unnerving. In 17 years I will be nearing 50 and my 3 month old daughter will be learning to drive. I’ll be into corderoys, Christmas-jumpers and Classic FM, she’ll...
View ArticleA Lobbyists’ Spring?
It has been a tough week for democrats. In Europe, the European Parliament rejected a simple measure to help support the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). In the US, the Senate rejected...
View ArticleBorder Carbon Adjustments – Tariff Reform for the 21st Century
There is a radical idea doing the rounds. So radical in fact that in years gone by, earlier forms of the idea have brought down governments, destroyed political parties, even brought the country to the...
View ArticleTory MPs Splutter Over EU While Earth Chokes
You don’t need to buy The Daily Mail to get hold of the priceless banter on its opinion pages; it shouts abuse at you across the newsagent; it bellows out bile from petrol station forecourts; it...
View ArticleOn a Warm Summer’s Evening – DECC Plays the Gambler
It was no lesser authority than Kenny Rogers who revealed in his 1978 country classic that ‘Every gambler knows; the secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep’. It is...
View Article5 Reasons to be Cheerful About Clean Energy
After all the talk of energy shortages and black-outs over the past week, I thought it’s time to take a more positive look at the energy policy horizon. I’ve picked out a couple of highlights that...
View ArticleTo Reduce Bills We Need to Take Back the Power
What has happened to progressive ideas on energy policy? Politicians seem to be locked in a rhetorical battle to go further and further backwards. There’s talk of a windfall tax which we tried in the...
View ArticleThe Epic Brussels Face Plant
Like a moth drawn to the flames of a candle when the clear bright moon beckons, some things can not help themselves. So it is with the European Commission. On a day when the European Union should have...
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