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...
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
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
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...
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
The paper considers whether water privatization 30 years ago has delivered the promised superior performance to nationalization, which remains the dominant model in Europe.
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...
As investors look to Sunak for clarity on new UK infrastructure bank, the signs are hopeful, provided it is set up… https://t.co/SjUPkadUuq
PublicationEnvironmentBespoke carbon taxes on food February 15, 2021
Are carbon taxes on beef and dairy the answer to emissions from the UK agricultural sector? The issue needs to be addressed
PublicationEnvironmentNet Carbon Gain February 5, 2021
Net Carbon Gain - a new principle, adding to the concepts of Net Biodiversity Gain and Net Environmental Gain
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The EU has been developing its energy and climate policies since 1990, and over time the c...
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 ...