Environment
-
Publications by Dieter Helm
WORK IN PROGRESS: Rent seeking and picking winners - UK climate policy. Article in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (End 2009).
31st March 2010
-
News
People power - a realistic solution to britain's energy crisis?
24th February 2010
“Individual householders becoming little generation plants and selling power back into the system is a wonderfully attractive and seductive idea,” says Professor Dieter Helm, an energy policy expert at Oxford University, who also advises the government. “We would all like to be our own power stations and make money.” But Professor Helm fears this is an idealistic solution. This method of producing energy is extremely expensive because it’s unreliable, so it...
-
Presentations by Dieter Helm
Beyond Copenhagen and the implications for energy policies
13th February 2010
Presentation to the Oxford Climate Forum 2010
-
Publications by Dieter Helm
Energy and environmental policy: options for the future
1st November 2009
Chapter from: Tsoukalis, L. (ed.), (2009), “The EU in a world in transition: Fit for what purpose?”, Policy Network. Volume three in a series: EU "fit for purpose" in the global age.
-
Publications by Dieter Helm
The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, OUP (with Cameron Hepburn)
29th October 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1: Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn: Introduction Part One: Revisiting the Economics of Climate Change 2: Dieter Helm: Climate-change policy: why has so little been achieved? 3: Cameron Hepburn and Nicholas Stern: The global deal on climate change 4: Scott Barrett: Climate treaties and the imperative of enforcement 5: Ross Garnaut, Stephen Howes, Frank Jotzo and Peter Sheehan: The implications of rapid development for climate-change mitigation 6: Kjell Arne Brekke and...
-
News
Emissions reductions are misleading, says government's new science adviser
1st October 2009
Britain's reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases are misleading, according to the government's new chief scientist. Professor David MacKay told the BBC that greenhouse gas emissions created by Britons are probably twice as bad as official figures suggest. The figures are distorted because developing countries now made the goods that Britain buys, he said. "Our energy footprint has decreased over the last few decades and that's largely because we've exported our industry," MacKay said. "...
-
Media articles by Dieter Helm
Don't blow our £100 billion on wind power
16th July 2009
Article in The Times - may also be found HERE. Instead of pouring money into renewable energy, we should invest in technology that will really tackle climate change. Climate change is an existential threat. It presents huge challenges to governments and, inevitably, we will have to pay a significant price to keep the temperature from rising by more than two degrees. Politicians across the world increasingly understand this. This is in itself a big step forward in the build-up to the Copenhagen...
-
Publications by Dieter Helm
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...
-
Presentations by Dieter Helm
A critique of European energy and envrionment policy
11th March 2009
Slides presented at the Annual FLAME conference, Amsterdam March 11th 2009
-
Presentations by Dieter Helm
Environmental challenges in a warming world -Consumption, costs and responsibilities
21st February 2009
Slides presented at the Tanner Lecture on Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century February 21st 2009