Professor Dieter Helm’s Cost of Energy review was greeted in parts of the press with headlines like “excessive green taxes force up energy bills”. Sam Fankhauser analyses the review in the context of UK efforts to tackle climate change. Read more
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Responding to the publication today [25 October, 2017] of the independent Cost of Energy Review by Professor Dieter Helm, CBE,... Read more
Energy is needed for economic growth, and access to cheap, reliable energy is an essential development objective. However, in the... Read more
Grantham Workshop | Joanna Pardoe ‘Climate change and the water-energy-food nexus: Policy and practice in Tanzania’
Event Type: Grantham WorkshopWhen evaluating policy treatments that are persistent and endogenous, available instrumental variables often exhibit more variation over time than the... Read more
Using household-level data from the American Housing Survey, this paper assesses the cost of adapting housing to temperature increases. The authors account for both energy use adjustments and capital adjustments through investments in weatherization and heating and cooling equipment. Read more
It is vitally important that the public debate about the UK’s options for managing the risks of climate change is... Read more
Grantham Workshop | Christian Downie ‘The fight for King Coal’s Crown: Business actors in the US coal and utility industries’
Event Type: Grantham WorkshopThe COP-21 meeting in Paris produced an important result. For the first time all countries developed and developing agreed to take... Read more
Abstract There are strong interdependencies between water use in agriculture and energy consumption as water saving technologies can require increased... Read more
