UK climate policy

This submission to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s inquiry on Leaving the EU looks at which aspects of EU policy should be retained and the potential impact of Brexit on Paris Agreement pledges. Read more

The UK has played an important role in shaping and advancing European action on climate change. Without it, other Member States will find themselves picking up the slack or the EU will miss its greenhouse gas target for 2030, write Maria Carvalho and Sam Fankhauser. Read more

The next UK Government after the General Election on 7 May should reform the UK’s overly-complex energy taxation and create new institutions to depoliticise infrastructure investment, particularly in the energy sector. These recommendations are among several new measures outlined in the Institute’s latest policy brief ‘Climate change priorities for the next UK government’. Read more

Bob Ward argues a recent Conservative attack on the Climate Change Act will make worrying reading for green businesses Business... Read more

One of the most important scientific documents ever published makes clear the scale of the risks posed by greenhouse gases.... Read more

Working Paper 121 Abstract This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the value of the elasticity of marginal utility for... Read more

Peter Lilley hypes up shale gas with poor analysis, woolly thinking and an apparent hatred for environmentalists This week’s issue... Read more

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Major cuts in the amount of funding that the Coalition Government is investing in the UK’s world class science base... Read more