The FT has this to say this morning: The research is by Carbon Tracker and I cannot, as yet, find it on their site, but
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The fictional markets in environmental assets that the financiers are dreaming up are not going to solve the climate crisis
One of the features of sustainable cost accounting that its critics are not to keen on is my suggestion that offsetting not be permitted within
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It’s time the extractive industries came to terms with stranded assets
New research from Carbon Tracker on stranded assets – those resources that cannot be used by extractive industries companies if the planet is to survive –
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A research agenda
It is slightly strange to be on a train this morning. I have hardly been on any since March 2020. It’s also strange to be
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The QuEST for a Green New Deal in the Guardian
My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague Colin Hines has this letter in the Guardian: Andy Beckett is right to find some
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The environment is now the number two issue of public concern
The Ipsos MORI Issues Index for August 2021 shows public concern about the environment has jumped sixteen percentage points over last month’s Index. This could,
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Gatwick airport plans to carry on as if the world is not burning all around us
It was a touch depressing to read this in the FT today: Gatwick airport is to push ahead with expansion despite the hit to the
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It is time we had joined up economic policy, and independent central banking hooked on QE is not good for that
In 2010 I wrote this in a paper co-authored with Colin Hines on what we thought should be the future of quantitative easing: More than
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We need change to tackle climate change very urgently. And the Tories are determined nothing should happen.
The Tories in Scotland published this tweet in response to the new SNP -Green political partnership. Our vital North Sea sector is under threat from
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