Environment
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Media articles by Dieter Helm
To Slow Warming, Tax Carbon
13th November 2012
Article from the New York Times - find it HERE Or download a PDF below
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Media articles by Dieter Helm
New Paths to Power
10th November 2012
Article in The Spectator. Find it HERE Or download a PDF below
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Media articles by Dieter Helm
Forget the Kyoto Accord And Tax Carbon Consumption by Dieter Helm: Yale Environment 360
8th November 2012
Given the failure of international climate negotiations, a tax on carbon consumption is the most effective way of lowering CO2 emissions. If nations are serious about addressing climate change, then they must pay for the carbon pollution caused by what they consume. Read it HERE Or download a PDF below
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Publications by Dieter Helm
The economic analysis of biodiversity: an assessment
5th October 2012
Abstract: Biodiversity is complex, difficult to define, difficult to measure, and often involves international and intergenerational considerations. Biodiversity loss presents significant economic challenges. A great deal of economics is required to understand the issues, but a simple and important observation is that most species and ecosystems are not traded in markets, so prices are often absent and biodiversity is under-provided. Despite the formidable obstacles to high-...
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Publications by Dieter Helm
Trade, climate change and the political game theory of border carbon adjustments
10th May 2012
Dieter Helm, Cameron Hepburn and Giovanni Ruta May 2012 Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper No. 92 Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 80
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Media articles by Dieter Helm
Forget The Huhne Hype About Wind Power
6th February 2012
Dieter Helm: Forget The Huhne Hype About Wind Power The Times, Monday, 06 February 2012 15:25 Dieter Helm.
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Presentations by Dieter Helm
The UK decarbonisation strategy and its impacts and growth and competitiveness
26th January 2011
•The framework for the targets •The components of the strategy •The determinants of economic growth •Infrastructure = Economic consequences of the strategy
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Green Energy Rush Hit by Headwinds
21st April 2010
From the Wall Street Journal: By Guy Chazan ..."Offshore wind is one of the most expensive short-term ways you can conceive of to reduce CO2 emissions," says Dieter Helm, professor of energy policy at Oxford University. "It's economic nonsense to put all your eggs in one basket like this." Read the full article HERE
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Publications by Dieter Helm
Government failure, rent-seeking, and capture: the design of climate change policy. Article in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (June 2010).
31st March 2010
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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...
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| 10-11-2012 |
| Forget the Kyoto Accord And Tax Carbon Consumption by Dieter Helm: Yale Environment 360 |
| 08-11-2012 |