As this morning’s Politico email briefing notes: British officials fighting climate change reckon that if each person in the U.K. sent one fewer email a
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Not so much a Green Industrial Revolution, more a Green Industrial Sop
I suppose I should praise Boris Johnson for announcing what he calls a Green Industrial Revolution’ in the FT this morning, but I find it
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The book I most want to read, right now
Martin Wolf’s list of economics books for 2020 includes not a single title I have read, and rather bizarrely omits the best seller – Stephanie
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The government’s green job promise is completely hollow
The government claimed to launch a plan to deliver 2 million green jobs by 2030 yesterday. It said: The UK government today (12 November 2020)
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Labour’s Green New Deal is a good step in the right direction
Labour has reaffirmed its commitment to a Green New Deal in a document released by Anneliese Dodds and Ed Miliband in their respective roles as
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The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure requirements will not give us the information we need on the carbon emissions of big business
There are hints today that the government is planning to make climate change disclosure by large companies mandatory. Rishi Sunak has given this the nod,
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Why we need Green Bonds
The Chancellor, in another closely co-ordinated policy announcement with the Bank of England, announced yesterday that the government does now plan to issue green bonds.
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Only the mad and economists
I have heard it said that only the mad and economists think that perpetual growth is possible in a finite world. This graph comes from
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Do cars need to come with a health warning?
Some may find this off the wall, but my Green New Deal colleague Andrew Simms is saying something here that seems to me to make
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