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Nicholas Stern responds to decision about UK Fourth Carbon Budget
Response to the announcement that the UK Government will not be revising the Fourth Carbon Budget for the period 2023-27 read more »
Owen Paterson to give lecture to Nigel Lawson’s climate-sceptic thinktank
Just days after leaving office, former UK environment secretary agrees to deliver speech at Global Warming Policy Foundation read more »
Australia’s carbon price repeal: the global context
With the repeal today of Australia’s two-year-old carbon pricing scheme, the Abbott Government has formalised Australia’s transition from climate laggard to climate wrecker. But just how serious a blow to global climate efforts is this repeal? read more »
Lawson’s climate-sceptic group hit by charity status row
Climate-sceptic charity the Global Warming Policy Foundation is to relaunch in September, after a complaint about its charitable status. read more »
Watchdog must be tougher on climate sceptic ‘charity’
Decisive action is needed to curb Nigel Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation, which lobbies against climate change mitigation, says policy expert Bob Ward read more »
We need a stronger carbon price to justify shale
Professor Samuel Fankhauser examines the policy measures needed to ensure shale gas extraction is commensurate with our wider climate change objectives read more »
UK’s new energy and environment ministers opposed green energy
Matthew Hancock called for cuts to wind power subsidies while Liz Truss claimed renewable power was damaging the economy read more »
BRICS crean un banco para la infraestructura y reservas para la crisis
El Banco del BRICS y un millonario acuerdo de reservas acordados por los líderes de las cinco potencias emergentes el martes en Fortaleza (noreste de Brasil) crean una nueva arquitectura financiera para financiar sus deficientes infraestructuras y apoyarse en eventuales crisis. read more »
Will UK reshuffle boost science and environment?
Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment reflects on the potential impact of the new intake of ministers on future policy. read more »
