Publications
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We are six years away from an energy crisis
16th April 2009
Opinion piece from The Times, Thursday April 16th 2009. Page 28. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/a...
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Environmental challenges in a warming world: consumption, costs and responsibilities
21st February 2009
Tanner Lecture Presented at Brasenose College, Oxford February 21st 2009
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Georgia, Ukraine and energy security
28th January 2009
Centre for European Reform Bulletin Issue 64 http://www.cer.org.uk/articles/64_helm.html
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Credible Energy Policy
10th December 2008
Meeting the challenges of security of supply and climate change. British energy policy is no longer fit-for-purpose. It was designed for the 1980s and 1990s – years of excess supply, North Sea oil and gas, low prices and no serious climate change constraints. Circumstances have changed: the challenge now is predominantly to maintain security of supply while at the same time decarbonising our economy.
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Climate-change policy: why has so little been achieved?
1st November 2008
While the scientific evidence for climate change grows, the policy responses have so far had little or no impact on the build-up of emissions. Current trends in emissions are adverse. The paper considers why the disconnect between science and policy exists and, in particular, why the Kyoto Protocol has achieved so little. Some contributing factors considered are: the focus on carbon production rather than consumption in the architecture of Kyoto; the flaws in the analysis presented in the Stern...
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Caps and Floors for the EU ETS: a practical carbon price
13th October 2008
Central to any efficient climate change policy, and to the EU’s approach, is the establishment of a credible, long-term carbon price. The EU has chosen to achieve this via the indirect route of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), rather than by setting the price directly through a carbon tax.
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It's now or later
2nd October 2008
Is a slow, measured approach to reducing emissions more cost-effective than taking immediate action? Review of: A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies By William Nordhaus Yale University Press: 2008. 256pp. US$28
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Populism and Natural Resources: An Energy Policy Harvard Research Project
1st October 2008
An Energy Policy Research Project Harvard Electricity Policy Group John F. Kennedy School of Government (April 2008)
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OXREP Climate Change Special Issue
1st September 2008
Special issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy
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British Energy Policy
1st July 2008
Paper published in the Yearbook of International Relations