Europe
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Presentations by Dieter Helm
Coming up: "The EU's Achilles Heel: energy dependency?", RELEX conference, Brussels.
17th March 2010
Slides will be available here on the day.
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Presentations by Dieter Helm
"The economics of energy security policy" IIEA Lecture, Dublin.
3rd March 2010
Institute of International and European Affairs
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Presentations by Dieter Helm
The challenge of secure energy supplies for Britain – Implications for Europe
2nd March 2010
Presentation for the Norway Oil and Gas Group seminar in Stockholm
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Presentations by Dieter Helm
Beyond Copenhagen and the implications for energy policies
13th February 2010
Presentation to the Oxford Climate Forum 2010
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News
German regulation threatens vital gas-infrastructure development
2nd November 2009
From The Petroleum Economist ...Dieter Helm, an Oxford University professor and adviser to the UK government on energy policy, criticises the EU for forcing through liberalisation before building the interconnections between national markets... Click here for the full article
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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.
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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...
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Publications by Dieter Helm
EU climate-change policy—a critique
20th September 2009
Climates of Change: Sustainability Challenges for Enterprise Smith School Working Paper Series Professor Dieter Helm From The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn, OUP, October 2009. IntroductionEnvironmental issues in general, and climate change in particular, lend themselves to EU rather than national policy: many of the effects (such as acid rain and later pollution) are regional, and climate change is global. To date, the EU has had some...
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News
Taming the carbonivores
17th September 2009
From The Economist: FRANCE’S president, Nicolas Sarkozy, does not like to do things by halves. In characteristically grandiose fashion he described his plan to introduce a carbon tax as “the only choice that could guarantee…the future of our planet”. If it goes ahead, France would be the first big country to adopt such a tax, which exists in Scandinavia. But the proposal has already run into fierce hostility, from consumers, opposition parties—and even greens. Mr...
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Economist slams EU climate policy as ineffective
7th September 2009
From Euractive.com: The EU's climate legislation risks turning into a "grossly distorting and expensive policy" unless it is seriously revamped, a leading British academic has warned. In a paper released on 3 September by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, Professor Dieter Helm argued that the EU's climate change and energy package is little more than "a politically neat but economically inefficient set of...