I was asked my thoughts on carbon taxes yesterday. I prepared this rather quick note, which explains why I am unenamoured of them and think
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You can have a Green New Deal or Brexit but not both
I note commentators turning up on this site to say that there is no way I am progressive because I remain in favour of the
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Accountants, actuaries and climate change
I took part in a discussion organised by Anglia Ruskin University, the Insitute of Actuaries and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
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A climate emergency requires action to tackle it and none was promised yesterday
The UK government joined those of Wales and Scotland in announcing a climate emergency yesterday. I could suggest that’s better late than never, but however
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The Institute for Public Policy Research launches its Environmental Justice Commission – to call for a Green New Deal
Caroline Lucas, Ed Miliband and Laura Sandys have written this in the Guardian this morning: On Tuesday, the Institute for Public Policy Research launches its
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Why not nuclear? The answer in one chart
This is from the IMF: Why not nuclear? Because it makes no economic sense: that’s why not. And that’s before the uncertainty of decommissioning costs are,
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This is going to wind up the Brexiteers
Yes, this is The Michel Barnier that Brexiteers all love already, writing for Project Syndicate….. That should go down a storm with the climate change
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US banks: financing climate extinction
The FT has noted this morning just how out of line US banks are on fossil fuel investment when compared with other banks and the
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The case for an investment led economy
I have written a fair few NGO reports in my time; some of them on economic policy. I have some idea just how hard this
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