Any day now it will be my organisation, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment‘s, annual world forum: this year on the topic of low carbon mobility. It should be a great event with prominent speakers and participants engaging on the economics and technologies of mobility in a low carbon economy. But the challenge [...]
This month saw the publication of Helm & Hepburn’s book, Economics of Climate Change. It is a fascinating collection of articles on economics and policy with contributors such as Nicholas Stern and Ngaire Woods. (And if you want to see selected chapters, check out the Climates of Change working paper series.) Ever since Nicholas Stern’s [...]
These things we hold to be self-evident: One – We all want renewable energy, and wind farms are a good way of getting it. Two – We all want good quality, affordable food, produced in ways that don’t mess up the environment. Three – We all want to own well-built houses in nice communities, preferably [...]
What this week has brought home is the size of the gap between our goals and our achievements. Climate change combatants are looking for ways to ramp up solutions : hopefully they won’t mistake the icepick for a solution
Some of the most important things about climate change today aren’t photogenic.