Archive of Publications

Video Climate Change Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
September 3, 2020

Introduction to my new book: Net Zero
Publication Energy EU climate and energy policy: how to achieve net zero much more efficiently
July 29, 2020

The EU has been developing its energy and climate policies since 1990, and over time the climate perspective has become – with the single market – one of the key defining elements of what the EU stands for...
Video Environment Green Recovery Plans
June 24, 2020

Green Recovery Plans
Video Environment The Future of Natural Capital
June 10, 2020

Presentation for WIG: The Future of Natural Capital
Publication Environment BREXIT, trade and the environment – the highest standards rule
June 2, 2020

Trade has become an economic battleground in the retreat from globalisation. The US has made trade core to its foreign policy, mainly in respect of China, but also the EU and Russia. Trade sanctions are the weapon of choice in US global politics.
Publication Regulation There is no money
May 18, 2020

As the full impacts of the lockdowns become painfully obvious, there is much talk of new stimuli and in particular green recovery plans.
Publication Coronavirus The Environmental Impacts of the Coronavirus
May 7, 2020

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has resulted in global lockdowns, sharply curtailing economic activity. It is a unique experiment with substantial impacts that will form the agenda for research.
Video Environment Introduction to Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
April 16, 2020

An Introduction to my new book - Green and Prosperous Land (Paperback)
Publication Climate Change Climate change has not gone away - COP26, net zero and the coronavirus
April 3, 2020

The coronavirus virus has now taken centre stage, and climate change policy developments are being postponed. There will be inevitable delays for the EU’s package and for the 6th carbon budget in the UK, and COP26 too. In the circumstances...
Publication Coronavirus September 2020 (and March 2021): the temporary and the permanent impacts of coronavirus
March 25, 2020

For very good reasons all attention is on the immediate containment of the coronavirus and protecting lives. It is also about holding the economy together and helping people and businesses faced with an unprecedented combination of demand and ...
Publication Environment Is rewilding the answer?
March 16, 2020

The last decades have been characterised by the continued destruction of the natural environment, punctuated by the occasional “successes”, like Red Kites and Sea Eagles. Faced with the broad history of failure, many have turned to the idea that what is n
Publication Energy What are the implications of falling oil and gas prices? The Burn Out scenario.
March 10, 2020

The most interesting question to ask about oil prices is: why have they taken so long to fall? Now that they have, and with a bang, it is time for the oil and gas companies, the wider energy market participants and the politicians to think through...
Video Transport Decarbonising Transport
March 3, 2020

Presentation for Transport Knowledge Hub National Workshop
Publication Water Floods, water company regulation and catchments: time for a fundamental rethink
March 2, 2020

Floods happen. They always will. The question is how to limit their impact. Short of stopping the rain, there are several obvious strategies: holding water upstream; slowing flows; building walls and other physical barriers; and building resilience into p
Publication Regulation Thirty years after water privatization—is the English model the envy of the world?
November 11, 2019

The paper considers whether water privatization 30 years ago has delivered the promised superior performance to nationalization, which remains the dominant model in Europe.
Publication Transport HS2: a conclusion in search of a rationale
September 5, 2019

What is the question or questions to which HS2 is supposed to be an answer? As with a number of big and long-term projects, as one rationale collapses another is grasped in the attempt to justify doing something, rather than work out whether it is a...
Publication Energy Power cuts and how to avoid them
August 19, 2019

Whatever the approximate causes of the particular power cuts in mid-August this year, the very idea that the electricity system could be brought to its knees just because a couple of power stations dropped off at short notice should send alarm bells...
Video Environment Introduction to Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
March 7, 2019

An Introduction to my new book - Green and Prosperous Land
Publication Regulation The Systems Regulation Model
February 12, 2019

There is widespread dissatisfaction with many of the privatised utilities. In the rail sector, despite gaining from much higher revenues from a doubling of demand and significantly higher real prices, performance has been subject to repeated criticisms...
Publication Energy Why aren’t electricity prices falling?
February 1, 2019

The costs of renewables are falling, oil and gas prices have fallen back, and demand is soft. Why then are electricity prices being pushed up, rather than falling back?

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Video Climate Change Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
September 3, 2020
Introduction to my new book: Net Zero
Publication Energy EU climate and energy policy: how to achieve net zero much more efficiently
July 29, 2020
The EU has been developing its energy and climate policies since 1990, and over time the climate perspective has become – with the single ma...

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