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Building an Energy Union
Presentation for Energy Infrastructures Towards the creation of a European Energy Union Co... -
Ukraine, Europe and Energy
After a short pause, the borders of east and southeast Europe are again in flux, as they h... -
Europe’s Energy Future: Rejuvenation or decline?
Slidepack for the FLAME 2014 conference May 22nd 2014.
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Climate Change
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Climate change has not gone away - COP26, net zero and the coronavirus
The coronavirus virus has now taken centre stage, and climate change policy developments a... -
The Carbon Crunch - Revised and Updated
Hard hitting analysis of how and why we have failed to tackle climate change, and how we c... -
Climate Change and carbon pricing
Presentation for The Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) United Nations Secre...
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Regulation
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Transport
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Decarbonising Transport
Presentation for Transport Knowledge Hub National Workshop -
HS2: a conclusion in search of a rationale
What is the question or questions to which HS2 is supposed to be an answer? As with a numb... -
What to do about the railways?
Despite the sharp rise in demand and therefore revenue, it is widely agreed that the railw...
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Communications
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The new broadband utility and the openreach debate
The prime Minister has said that we should have, by right, access to fast broadband and it... -
The new broadband utility and the openreach debate
The prime Minister has said that we should have, by right, access to fast broadband and it... -
Price setting in regulated utilities and the potential application to the BBC
The determination of the BBC’s licence fee is the outcome of an opaque and non-transparent...
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Infrastructure
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Investing in Future Utility Infrastructure
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How long can interest rates remain low?
We live in extraordinary times. Real interests are negative, have been negative for severa... -
British Infrastructure and the Gradual Return of the state
The state of British infrastructure is the source of almost continuous study and criticism...
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Regulation
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There is no money
As the full impacts of the lockdowns become painfully obvious, there is much talk of new s... -
Thirty years after water privatization—is the English model the envy of the world?
The paper considers whether water privatization 30 years ago has delivered the promised su... -
The Systems Regulation Model
There is widespread dissatisfaction with many of the privatised utilities. In the rail sec...
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Transport
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Natural Capital
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Environment
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Introduction to Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
An Introduction to my new book - Green and Prosperous Land (Paperback) -
Is rewilding the answer?
The last decades have been characterised by the continued destruction of the natural envir... -
Introduction to Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
An Introduction to my new book - Green and Prosperous Land
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Water
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Floods, water company regulation and catchments: time for a fundamental rethink
Floods happen. They always will. The question is how to limit their impact. Short of stopp... -
Who owns the water companies?
Who owns the water companies? Are publicly quoted companies better than private equity and... -
Water Boarding
The water industry is in play - with the regulators, and with the politicians. Labour pro...
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Environment
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The most interesting question to ask about oil prices is: why have they taken so long to f...
Whatever the approximate causes of the particular power cuts in mid-August this year, the ...
The costs of renewables are falling, oil and gas prices have fallen back, and demand is so...