Current carbon prices around the world are too weak to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and Europe needs to show leadership by driving up pricing levels, Nicholas Stern will warn in a speech at the One Planet Summit today (12 December) in Paris. read more »
Hydropower dams planned for eastern and southern Africa could put electricity supply at risk for vast regions because they rely on the same rainfall patterns for electricity generation, warns new … read more »
European Union countries should focus on carbon pricing rather than subsidies for low-carbon electricity to achieve further reductions in emissions from their power sectors. An audience of policy-makers and business … read more »
Response to the publication of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy on 27 November 2017. read more »
The decision by the UK Treasury to continue its indefinite freeze of the Carbon Price Support Rate means the price is likely to be too weak to create enough shift from gas-fired power stations to low-carbon sources, such as renewables and nuclear. read more »
The Treasury should use the Autumn Budget on 22 November to introduce a stronger carbon price and to extend existing financial support for renewable power, according to a report published … read more »
Welcoming the final decisions from the United Nations climate change summit in Bonn, Germany, Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the … read more »
Rich households in the United States each create 12 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year on average from driving their cars – the equivalent of 8 months of a poor household’s entire carbon footprint, according to a new study published today (17 November 2017). read more »
Commenting today (3 November 2017) on the publication this week by the Met Office of preliminary figures for the UK’s weather in October, Bob Ward, policy and communications director at … read more »
Responding to the publication today [25 October, 2017] of the independent Cost of Energy Review by Professor Dieter Helm, CBE, Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research … read more »
