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Tag Archives: climate policy
Green policies are not responsible for the Tata steel crisis
By Karl Mathiesen This article was published by The Guardian Analysis of the figures show Port Talbot may actually have been profiting from efforts to reduce carbon emissions There was a slew of comment over the weekend regarding … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Security, Environment, In the media, renewables, The Guardian
Tagged bills, Britain, carbon, carbon price, carbon tax, CCC, China, climate, climate change, Climate Change Act, climate policies, climate policy, Committee on Climate Change, consumer, costs, electricity, emissions, energy, energy market, Europe, green, green levies, levies, policy, Port Talbot, steel, Tata, Tata Steel, taxes, The Guardian, UK
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REMARKS BY MR TOM BURKE CBE – AT THE WORLD ENERGY COUNCIL ENERGY DAY – BERLIN – OCTOBER 1ST 2015
The speech on Tuesday by Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board is a game changer for climate change. Whatever you thought about the politics or economics of climate … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cities, Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, European, Finance, International, Oil and Gas, People, Politics, Speeches, Sustainability, The Human Cost
Tagged 2 degrees, Bank of England, bankers, BOE, Britain, Carbon Tracker, Carbon Tracker Initiative, Carney, climate change, climate policy, economics, economy, finance, financial crisis, Financial Stability Board, fossil fuel, G20, global temperature, government, investment, investor, low-carbon, Mark Carney, Paris, policy, policy makers, politics, prosperity, risk, security, stability, technology, threat, United States
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REMARKS ON CLIMATE AND SECURITY AT THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL – WASHINGTON DC – JUNE 17TH 2015
This is the address I gave at the Atlantic Council event Climate Security: The Next ‘Battle Ground’? on June 17, 2015 in Washington DC. Security professionals often distinguish … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Business, Cities, Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, European, International, People, Politics, Speeches, Sustainability, The Human Cost
Tagged Atlantic Council, cities, climate, climate change, climate policy, climate security, cost, costs, disruptions, dissent, economic growth, emissions, emissions reduction, EU, Europe, failure, food, fuel, government, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, growth, income, infrastructure, integrity, leadership, Libya, Mediterranean, migrants, national security, opportunity, policy, population, population growth, population rise, populist, power, public, Putin, resource, rising population, risk, security, social stability, States, stress, support, Syria, territorial, territorial integrity, territory, threat, urban, water
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THE FOSSIL FUEL PARADOX
This blog was first published by BusinessGreen A debate over the real value of investment in fossil fuels has raged all summer. September’s climate summit in New York brought it into … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Business, Business Green, Campaigning, Changing the Politics, Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, European, International, Oil and Gas, Sustainability
Tagged Anthony Hobley, brands, business, capex, carbon, carbon neutral, Carbon Tracker, Carbon Tracker Initiative, climate, climate makers, climate policy, climate summit, climate takers, climate treaty, community, consumer, E3G, economies, economy, energy, extreme weather, Exxon, floods, food, fossil fuel, fuel, global warming, growth, IEA, International Energy Agency, investment, low carbon economy, Nestle, oil, paradox, policy, population, risk, security, Shell, SME, stranded assets, transition, treasury, Unilever, urban, water, weather, World Bank
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Tusk – not as bad for climate as it first appears?
This piece first appeared on the E3G website The appointment of Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, to replace Van Rompuy as President of the European Council has provoked jitters … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Climate Change, E3G, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, European, In the media, Oil and Gas, Politics
Tagged ambition, climate change, climate policy, climate security, coal, Donald Tusk, E3G, efficiency, energy, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy security, Energy Union, environment, EU, Europe, European Commission, European Council, fossil fuel, gas, Junker, leadership, Merkel, policy, Polish, Putin, Russian gas, spin, Ukraine, Van Rompuy
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THE FRAGILE CITY AND THE RISK NEXUS
This is a new short book I have written with leading urbanist Charles Landry. It brings together for the first time two disconnected narratives. The first is … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Changing the Politics, Cities, Climate Change, Comedia, Corporate Governance, Domestic, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, European, International, People, Politics, renewables, Sustainability
Tagged action, authority, Charles Landry, cities, city, climate, climate action, climate change, climate policy, communities, community, cost, costs, creative, creative city, creativity, economic growth, economies, economy, energy, energy efficiency, energy security, environment, environmental, failure, food, Fragile City, future, government, growth, infrastructure, innovation, integrated, integration, opportunities, opportunity, policy, politicians, politics, population, resources, risk, Risk Nexus, security, stability, stress, stresses, sustainability, sustainable, The Fragile City, The Fragile City and The Risk Nexus, The Risk Nexus, threat, urban, urbanisation, water
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NO-ONE HOME
This piece first appeared in BusinessGreen There is no-one at home in Britain’s political parties. Increasingly they are empty shells with ever fewer members. On a good day less than 400,000 people belong to all our political … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Business Green, Changing the Politics, Cities, Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, Politics, renewables, Sustainability
Tagged activism, Britain, business, carbon, carbon emissions, Charles Landry, cities, citizens, city, climate, climate change, climate policy, CO2, communities, cost, creative, creative cities, creative city, creativity, customers, damages, development, Earth Summit, economic growth, economy, efficiency, emissions, environment, environmental, Fragile City, governments, green, growth, investment, leadership, MPs, National Trust, policy, political parties, political party, politics, population, poverty, Renewables, resources, risk, Risk Nexus, RSPB, spin, sustainable, sustainable cities, sustainibility, taxes, The Fragile City, Transition Towns, unions, voters, wealth
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THE FUTURE IS COMING READY OR NOT
The following speech talks about the looming collision between $6 trillion of investment in oil and gas over the next ten years and the agreement by governments to keep the rise in global temperature below 2°C. This collision will … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Business, Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Energy Security, Oil and Gas, Politics, Speeches, The Human Cost
Tagged Brussels, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon neutral, climate, climate policy, coal, collision, debt, demand, dilemma, disease, economy, education, efficiency, electricity, energy, energy security, food security, fossil fuel, future, G7, gas, globailsation, Green Mountain, growth, health, imagination, ingenuity, investment, leadership, migration, Norway, oil, opportunity, population, poverty, prosperity, risk, security, warming, water security
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MAKERS AND TAKERS
This article first appeared in Business Green. The public discourse on climate policy is asymmetric. It has been dominated by the climate makers. These are the fossil fuel industries and their customers. This has led to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Business Green, Campaigning, Economics, Energy, Energy Security, Oil and Gas, People, Politics
Tagged 2 degrees, Bayer, business, Business Europe, carbon, carbon neutral, CBI, Centrica, changing climate, cities, climate, climate makers, climate policy, climate takers, coal, community, cost, customers, damages, demand, Dow, economists, economy, EEF, emerging economies, energy, energy demand, energy security, energy system, EoN, extreme, Exxon, floods, food, food security, fossil fuel, fuel, gas, growth, Holcim, jobs, Nestle, Obama, oil, Peabody, President Obama, risk, RWE, security, Shell, smal businesses, Tesco, Unilever, warmer, warming, water, water security, weather
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Magic and Misdirection
This article first appeared in the December edition of BusinessGreen magazine One of the more stressful moments in Britain’s history occurred in the spring of 1940. Churchill had just become Prime … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Business Green, Domestic, Economics, Energy, Energy Security, European, Politics
Tagged Bjorn Lomborg, carbon, carbon neutral, carbon price, carbon tax, climate change, climate models, climate policy, cost-benefit analysis, costs, damage, economic models, economists, economy, energy system, global energy system, high risk, higher risk, incentive, investment, investment capital, low-carbon, LSE, misdirection, misled, MIT, National Identity, Nicholas Stern, policy, policy failure, price of carbon, recycled, right wing, Robert Pindyck, social cost, threat, transformational change, treasury, war
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