Fuel poverty, where a household spends more than 10 per cent of its income on energy bills, affects around 4 to 5 million households in the UK. With the rising cost of energy it is crucial to understand the energy practices and concerns of the fuel poor, so that appropriate responses can be designed for […]
The Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) in Leeds held a workshop on the UK green economy roadmap. The workshop included an exploration of trade, consumption and carbon flows, innovation-friendly policy, the low-carbon skills agenda, and creating investment certainty. Additional contributers included government departments (Department of Energy and Climate Change [DECC], the Department of […]
Co-organised by Netimpact and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at the University of Leeds Professor Andy Gouldson, Director of CCCEP and based at the University of Leeds, presented research findings on pathways to low-carbon business. Andrew Hartley, Operations Director for CO2Sense Yorkshire, followed with a practitioner commentary on the key drivers and barriers and […]
Panellists: Peter Betts, Director of International Climate Strategy, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change – DECC Michael Jacobs, Visiting Professor at Grantham Research Institute and Special Adviser to Gordon Brown from 2004 to 2010 Sebastian Oberthuer, Academic Director at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and member of the Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol
Part of the Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series, Lent term 2011.
Part of the CCCEP Seminar Series at Leeds Conventional individualistic behaviours with their quest for profit maximisation and wealth accumulation have created economic, environmental and social imbalances in today’s world. These imbalances threaten to become worse in the coming years, decades and centuries. Calls and efforts towards sustainable development (SD) seek to establish a dynamic […]
A CAGE/CCCEP workshop. The focus was on the ongoing global climate change negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, following on from the December 2009 meeting in Copenhagen, policy initiatives towards a low-carbon economy, both nationally and internationally, and the situation after the December 2010 Cancun UNFCCC meeting. More information Competitive Advantage in […]
Synopsis: China’s relationship with energy security, climate change and low carbon development in complex. With China’s emissions growth accounting for more than half the global total, its efforts to transition to a low carbon economy will be critical in tackling global climate change. We will outline the reasons for the surge in emissions from China […]
Synopsis: In 1988 few serious commentators believed that the politics of climate change would be anything other than tortuous. Yet the assumption has remained through the period since that human-induced climate change is an important, urgent and discrete problem which at least in principle lends itself to policy solutions. Optimism has waxed and waned, but […]
