How India’s battle with climate change could determine all of our fates (on www.theguardian.com)
Posted 6 Nov 2017 in In the news
The whole world would benefit from a clean, green India and can help make it happen says Nicholas Stern. read more »
Posted 6 Nov 2017 in In the news
The whole world would benefit from a clean, green India and can help make it happen says Nicholas Stern. read more »
Posted 3 Nov 2017 in Commentary
The knotty problem of allocating greenhouse gas emission quotas across countries was, until the Paris Agreement, the primary barrier to concerted action on reducing climate change. Digging deeper, however, two … read more »
Posted 3 Nov 2017 in Press releases
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 »
Posted 27 Oct 2017 in In the news
Business Green, 27 October 2017
Posted 27 Oct 2017 in Commentary
Professor Dieter Helm’s much awaited Review on the Cost of Energy was published on 25 October. Predictably, it was greeted in parts of the press with headlines like “excessive green … read more »
Posted 25 Oct 2017 in Press releases
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 »
Posted 10 Oct 2017 in Commentary
Major polluters and governments could be held to account by “climate justice” court cases, said Jeff Sachs, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, at a lecture hosted by the Grantham … read more »
Posted 4 Oct 2017 in Commentary
Energy bills are at the top of the political agenda in the UK. In the short term, increasing energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption will reduce energy bills – but … read more »
Posted 28 Sep 2017 in In the news
The Guardian, 28 September 2017
Posted 21 Sep 2017 in Commentary
Simon Pirani, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, gave a seminar at the Grantham Research Institute this week. Here he answers questions about the history of fossil fuel consumption, why consumption keeps rising when we need to reduce energy use, and how we could overhaul the systems which keep consumption high. read more »