10 September 2009: We have much to learn from Scandinavia
The Danish government has said that it will pay for poor nations, including the Maldives, to send people to the Copenhagen climate conference in December. This won't be very expensive - €2.5 million....
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UK planning statements on energy, November 2009
Yesterday (9 November 2008), the UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, published National Policy Statements (NPS) outlining the government policy on energy. They consist of guidance to...
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Repowering communities
I am writing a book, with Prashant Vaze and Peter Meyer on the role that local, regional and state governments should play in increasing energy efficiency and promoting low carbon energy. This will be...
View Article28 June 2010: Rudd’s downfall
It’s a melancholy irony that the right wing faction within the Australian Labor Party, which ended Kevin Rudd’s Prime Ministerial career, is the same faction that pressured him to drop his Carbon...
View Article18 November 2010: How to increase low-carbon investment
The Cancun climate summit should focus on how to get investment into low-carbon energy, rather than on legally-binding targets (which won't be agreed anyway). The EU can take a lead here, as former...
View Article21 October 2011: What the EU should do at and after the Durban climate summit
Whatever the outcome of the Durban discussions, the EU should give priority to agreeing its draft energy efficiency directive, which will be good for human health and energy security as well as climate...
View Article27 December 2011: Commission’s energy roadmap is a missed opportunity
The European Commission should focus on proposing specific policies, rather than modelling different scenarios. It has done well with its energy efficiency proposal; now it should propose strengthening...
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