The coalition Government's silence on the Severn tidal barrage may be a reflection of the high economic costs rather than the environmental concerns surrounding the project
Severn barrage faces economic rather than environmental hurdles Mark Jansen | 30th June 2010 News Tidal Water Severn Tidal Barrier Energy Renewables severn_barrage.jpg A map of various plans to put a …
The time may soon be coming when every government will need to think about rationing fossil fuel usage. What's the quickest and most equitable way to do it?
… 2010 News Energy Climate Change Politics And Economics Personal Carbon Trading Teqs … Later this month Dr David Fleming, a former economics spokesman and press secretary for …
As the fiscal dust kicked up by Alistair Darling's 2010 budget begins to settle, experts say they are 'surprised' by how 'un-green' the budget turned out to be
… Jansen | 25th March 2010 News Politics And Economics Energy Climate Change Budget Wind … news,' said Dr Gordon Edge, director of economics and markets at Renewable UK. British … is heading up the groundbreaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) …
George Osborne pledged £1billion to a green bank that could help Britain reduce carbon emissions. But with low carbon technologies unproven, banks, institutions and energy companies are wary, meaning the venture may not attract the capital to make it viable
… Jansen | 8th December 2010 News Politics And Economics Finance Banks Carbon Emissions … by David Boyle and Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation charts the rise and fall … David Boyle and Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation advocate a more …
High petrol prices mean less demand and less pollution, right? Not necessarily, finds Mark Jansen. Our relationship with our cars is far more complex...
… Jansen | 12th July 2010 News Politics And Economics Energy Petrol Fuel Petrol Prices … research fellow in transport and energy economics at Oxford University, says: 'I think …
As the UK government deliberates its new aviation policy campaigners warn that moves to approve airport expansion would put climate targets at risk
City Airport expansion highlights scale of aviation dilemma Mark Jansen | 21st January 2011 News Aviation Climate Change Airports Carbon Emissions Transport manchesterairport.jpg Activist groups have …
Carbon capture sounds like a fantastical idea: dig up fossil fuels, burn them, then return the captured CO2 underground. But the hurdles that stand in its way are formidable
… Stern, author of the 'Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change', argues in his …
The UK government plans to get companies to pay to insulate energy inefficient homes - recovering the money from savings on the householder's energy bill
… Friends of the Earth as leader of its climate economics team before founding Transform UK. …
As the public comes to terms with Government plans to sell public woodland, industry analysts predict much of the forest could be snapped up by energy companies looking to burn wood as a biofuel
England’s controversial forest sale could attract biofuel energy companies Mark Jansen | 8th December 2010 News Forests Biodiversity Natural World Society foreststrees.jpg The government plans to …
Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward
What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts? Mark Jansen | 10th February 2010 News Solar Energy Africa Renewables Csp Desertec Concentrating Solar Power desertec-worldmap_collector-area.jpg …
A ten-year campaign opposing a Shell gas pipeline in a remote cornor of Ireland is documented in a major new film - The Pipe - and has become a focal point for a community's right to oppose corporations and central government
The sleepy Irish village that challenged Shell over controversial pipeline Mark Jansen | 21st March 2011 News Oil Energy Natural World Shell Ireland Gas News Focus shellireland.jpg Hundreds of police …