Publications
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The Credit Crunch and Infrastructure Finance
30th June 2008
There is little doubt that European infrastructure spending over the coming decades is likely to be on a vast scale – probably more than twice the GDP spend on climate change... we have a classic dilemma: we need the infrastructure, but governments cannot afford to finance it.
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Meeting the infrastructure challenge
30th May 2008
Infrastructure matters in a way that most investments do not: it is complementary to the rest of the economy; and competitiveness depends upon it. This article examines the scale of the infrastructure challenge and the roles of governments and the private sector in providing solutions.
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A new regulatory model for water: the periodic review, financial regulation and competition
6th May 2008
Water regulation has been a rollercoaster ride for both the companies and the regulators.
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Pros and Cons - article for Green Alliance magazine Inside Track
1st May 2008
The environment is conventionally regarded as a public good...
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Utility Regulation and Critical National Infrastructure
15th April 2008
Paper in a publication released to coincide with the RUSI conference on Protecting the Critical National Infrastructure
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Chatham House Commission on Britain in Europe at 50
1st March 2008
Examines a set of EU policy areas vital to Britain and asks how these can help Britain to pursue its national interests.
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Energy Security without the North sea - time to think European
1st March 2008
Security of supply - along with climate change - has taken centre stage in energy policy debates...
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Too Good To Be True? The UKquotes Climate Change Record
10th December 2007
At first glance Britain has one of the best records in Europe on climate change; greenhouse gas emissions fell in the 1990s and it has already surpassed its 2012 Kyoto target. This paper examines whether the claimed superiority of Britain’s approach is solidly based on performance, or whether it owes much to the accounting methodology for measuring emissions. It sets out the UK’s official record in managing the production of greenhouse gases within the UK’s borders and considers the...
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It’s not over yet: the implications of the credit crunch
29th October 2007
2007 will go down in economic history as a roller-coaster – it’s not often that we see a global credit crunch which requires over half a trillion dollars to stabilise, and a run on a major London bank. The former occurs roughly every quarter of a century, the latter on a century scale – though there were no UK bank runs in the entire twentieth century.
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The Russian dimension and Europe's external energy policy
3rd September 2007
A striking feature of Europe's energy mix is its growing dependency on imported gas, and in particular its dependency on Russia as a source of supply. For some, this trend poses few new and special difficulties... For others, oil dependency is not quite so unproblematic and there are at least three additional things that are special about gas dependency.