Costing the climate

Written for publication in July 2005. To their considerable surprise, British journalists at Gleneagles were approached by members of the US delegation wishing to comment on a recent report by the House of Lords Committee on Economic Affairs.  This report, ‘The Economics of Climate Change’ was published to little notice […]

Coal, not nuclear, is the new black

Published in Inside Track, the quarterly magazine of Green Alliance, Issue 11, Summer 2005. You could have beeen forgiven for thinking that nuclear power was back in fashion. After the general election a barrage of headlines, column inches and sound bites heralded the return of nuclear power as an option […]