I, with Caroline Lucas MP and Andrew Simms had this letter in the FT this morning. For some reason Colin Hines did not have his
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Carbon, tobacco and economists: a modern tale
A commentator on the blog, Robert Fox, offered the following tale in response to my post on carbon taxation. I thought it well worth sharing.
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Don’t trust the economic think tanks: there is ample to do with £100 billion of investment, and the resources to do it
The big news of the morning is that the economy hit the election headlines yesterday. It hardly featured in 2017. It has already done so
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People want zero carbon by 2030. It’s what the Green New Deal requires.
The Guardian reports this morning that: A majority of the UK public and almost half of Conservative voters support a radical plan to transform the
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Labour’s investment plans are a step in the right direction
As the FT has reported this morning: Britain’s Labour party is planning to more than double the amount it would borrow for capital spending in
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Carbon taxes and carbon pricing are not solutions to the climate crisis
I have for some time resisted writing about why I found the issues of carbon pricing and carbon taxation so difficult. I think the time
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The failed carbon logic of Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf had an article published in the FT yesterday in which he argues that we need a carbon tax or emissions trading system with a
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Green QE has a future, but it will be hard without sustainable cost accounting
The FT has a report this morning under the title: Pushback and practicalities limit hopes for ‘green QE’ from ECB Green quantitative easing has come
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This election needs to be about the climate – because there is no bigger issue than it
The Guardian has reported this morning that: Labour, the Scottish National party and the Liberal Democrats have backed calls for a televised climate debate between
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