• Publication Energy The CMA Energy Market Investigation: Companies 5-0 CMA?
    March 15, 2016

    The Big 6 energy companies have scored a great victory at the CMA, and against considerable odds. Faced with an adverse finding that they have made excess returns of around £1.7 billion per annum for the period 2012- 2015, rising to £2.5 billion in the la
  • Video Environment Soils Policy and The 25 Year Environment Plan
    March 13, 2016

    Presentation for SSA
  • Video Energy Fossil Fuels: Is it the end?
    March 5, 2016

    Video Presentation for Warwick Climate Forum
  • Video Environment Utilities & efficient approaches to the environment
    March 3, 2016

    Presentation for WRc Workshop: Shaping the Future
  • Presentation Environment The Green Belt & Natural Capital
    March 3, 2016

    Presentation for CPRE
  • Video Environment Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services
    February 23, 2016

    Presentation for UNEP International Workshop
  • Presentation Energy The Price of Oil - in the short and long run
    February 9, 2016

    Presentation slides for International Petroleum Week conference - 9th February 2016.
  • Publication Energy The new normal: oil prices after the crash
    February 9, 2016

    They did not see it coming and ever since the oil price started its precipitous crash from the $100 level, they have been reeling. The “they” includes investors, company directors and the resource-cursed governments. At first, they expected it to be a tem
  • Video Energy The new normal- oil prices after the crash
    February 9, 2016

    They did not see it coming and ever since the oil price started its precipitous crash from the $100 level, they have been reeling. The “they” includes investors, company directors and the resource-cursed governments. At first, they expected it to be a tem
  • Publication Communications The new broadband utility and the openreach debate
    January 26, 2016

    The prime Minister has said that we should have, by right, access to fast broadband and it should be thought of like the services for electricity, water, transport and all the other utilities. He is absolutely right, but the implications of treating broad
  • Video Communications The new broadband utility and the openreach debate
    January 26, 2016

    The prime Minister has said that we should have, by right, access to fast broadband and it should be thought of like the services for electricity, water, transport and all the other utilities. He is absolutely right, but the implications of treating broad
  • Video Environment Natural Capital and National Parks
    January 22, 2016

    Presentation for Presentation for Future funding of Parks – what can the UK learn from others?
  • Publication Communications Price setting in regulated utilities and the potential application to the BBC
    January 19, 2016

    The determination of the BBC’s licence fee is the outcome of an opaque and non-transparent process, which contrasts dramatically with that which applies in the case of the regulated utilities. 2. In all the main privatisations from 1984 onwards, the utili
  • Publication Water Flood defence: time for a radical rethink
    January 5, 2016

    Flooding crises tend to follow an established pattern. First, there is immediate help and assistance. Then second, there is a “review”. On occasions, this leads to a third stage of genuine reform, but in most cases “sticking plasters” are applied. These a
  • Video Environment Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet
    October 23, 2015

    Presentation for London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Publication Energy Stranded Assets - a deceptively simple and flawed idea
    October 22, 2015

    The stranded assets argument has an elegant simplicity. Start with a maximum of 2 degrees warming. Work backwards to the total amount of additional carbon dioxide that can be emitted, consistent with this constraint. Compare this with the booked reserves
  • Video Environment Natural Capital, Water and Catchments
    October 1, 2015

    Presentation for CIWEM: Valuing the Environment - Putting Natural Capital into practice
  • Publication Transport What to do about the railways?
    September 22, 2015

    Despite the sharp rise in demand and therefore revenue, it is widely agreed that the railways are in a mess. A significant proportion of the electorate think that renationalisation is the answer, and indeed Network Rail itself has been renationalised. Alt
  • Publication Energy Reforming the FiTs and capacity mechanisms: the 2-stage capacity auction
    September 3, 2015

    Back in 2010, as Energy Market Reform (EMR) was getting going, I proposed a 2-stage auction as a way of combining mechanisms for meeting the carbon targets with the maintenance of a sufficient security margin. The first stage would be open to all, and the
  • Publication Energy The first 100 days of Conservative energy policy
    August 24, 2015

    Amber Rudd, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, has had a very busy start. She has ended new subsidies for onshore wind, reined back the Green Deal, removed the exemption from tax for renewables, ended the zero-carbon homes plan, removed
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