Grasping the opportunity
With the right backing from government, the Green Investment Bank has the potential to unlock huge opportunities for investment and innovation, to drive a greener economy. Dimitri Zenghelis makes the … read more »
News category: Commentary
The China factor
China’s Five Year Plan could turn out to be a turning point for global climate policy, writes Michael Jacobs. Inside Story
The prize perils and price of China’s plan
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Look beyond US and Europe for IMF and World Bank leaders
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Carbon trading: a good idea is going through a bad patch
Like other commodity markets, the “global” carbon market is in fact a series of smaller, differentiated trading platforms and products, which makes trading carbon both interesting and complex. The European … read more »
Lord Lawson’s appeal to unreason
Britain’s most prominent climate change sceptic, Lord Lawson of Blaby, has been encouraging audiences over the past few weeks to adopt a recklessly complacent approach to the risks posed by … read more »
Lord Lawson’s incredible complacency on climate change
Former chancellor claims the worst possible impacts of unchecked global warming ‘would not be disastrous’. The Sunday Times – subscription is required
Cold comfort for ‘sceptics’ in Antarctic research
The front cover of the 19 February 2011 edition of The Spectator magazine trumpeted an article with two headlines ‘The truth about the Antarctic: What global warming activists don’t want you to … read more »
Inflation erodes UK science budget
Last week’s budget presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not mention the science budget allocations, but among the figures published by the government was an admission that research … read more »
China gets serious about curtailing its carbon emissions
Britain’s carbon budgets are domestic emissions objectives, adopted because they make sense for the UK. But climate change is a global problem. Committee on climate change – blog