China boasts the fastest growing economy in the world. But how to calculate this development’s impact on natural resources, on public health and the environment? Pan Yue sets out the case for green GDP accounting
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Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem.
… the realms of what has been termed ‘the economics of genocide’. Essentially, the whole …
Peter Lilley MP was among just five Parliamentarians to vote against the Climate Change Act in the Commons in 2008. Here's why.
Why Lilley voted against climate action Brendan Montague | 9th November 2018 News Fakenomics Peter Lilley Climate Change Climate Change Act Lord Nigel Lawson Global Warming Global Warming Policy …
Environmentalists had waited with baited breath for the Chancellor's 2007 Budget. Gordon Brown had intimated that it would be the 'greenest ever'. In fact, it was a resounding disappointment.
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David Nicholson-Lord explains why trying to discuss human population growth these days is like placing your head on a stand at a coconut shy
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The European Commission has set out plans to keep global temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees. The authors said that limiting global warming to 2ºC is both technically feasible and economically affordable if the international community acts swiftly.
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The United States is trying to water-down the recommendations made in the third report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due to be released this Friday, the Associated Press reports.
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The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… Climate Change Energy Politics And Economics Power_On_MAIN.jpg The recent U-turn … The dynamics of simple supply-and demand economics highlights the fundamental problem …
'If you liked sub-prime, you'll love carbon trading!' Join the Camp for Climate Action on the 1st of April as they set up in the Square Mile to greet global leaders and remind them that climate change must remain on the agenda
… Global Warming Climate Change Politics And Economics Society ClimateCampCity_MAIN.jpg 'If … sub-prime'. The deregulated, market-obsessed economics that have dominated the political …
In his documentary, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, Martin Durkin presented the argument that the troposphere – Earth’s upper atmosphere – appeared to be cooler than climate models suggest. Durkin also argued that the global temperature fell in the post-war economic boom, despite rising levels of carbon dioxide.
The Great Global Warming Swindle: Response Richard Washington | 15th March 2007 News Climate Change Global Warming Denial Carbon Dioxide Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Climate Change …
There is no more heartbreaking indicator of human hardship than suicide says the author of a new report that shows the devastating impact of Global Warming on struggling Indian farmers, thousands of whom have taken their own lives over the last 30 years. G.B.S.N.P VARMA reports
… and researcher at agriculture and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley. …
From carbon trading to embodied emissions, our difficulties would be greatly reduced if we changed the way we perceive our own beliefs, says Bob Doppelt
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Plant fuels can never meet our current and growing energy needs and, as Robin Maynard reports, adopting a ‘carbohydrate economy’ may prove disastrous for our farmers, our food supply and our future
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Christian Aid this week released a report showing that, if account is taken of the UK's overseas investments, the country is responsible for as much as 15 per cent of global emissions of CO2. We asked Andrew Pendleton, the lead author of the research, where we go now.
Andrew Pendleton, from Christian Aid, on the UK's hidden carbon dioxide emissions Mark Anslow | 22nd February 2007 News Christian Aid Andrew Pendleton Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Fifteen Per Cent …
Laurence and Alison Matthews explain how the framework for the Paris Climate Change talks are set to skew the debate and distract us from the real agenda which should be to find a global solution to a global emergency.
Framing the Climate Talks Laurence Alison Matthews | 28th August 2015 Other Climate Change Global Warming banksy.jpg Laurence and Alison Matthews explain how the framework for the Paris Climate …
Described as a ‘mosquito inside a tent’,
Rainforest Action Network are forcing corporate
America to change its destructive practices.
Nicola Graydon meets this inspiring group of activists
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Russia last week planted a flag on the Arctic seabed while the Canadian Prime Minister announced $57 million plans to establish military control over a key future Arctic shipping route, in symbolic moves to seize previously inaccessible Arctic fossil fuel reserves.
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Happiness is... Climate change isn’t just a threat. It’s an opportunity for us to live happier, more fulfilling lives.
… Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics – despite not being an economist – … oil to make it run. In autumn 2005, the New Economics Foundation released a truly …
While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations.
A climate of inequity Mara Hvistendahl | 11th October 2007 Other Un Inequality Environment Global Warming Refugees Globalisation Human Rights Climate Change Society Archive_55.jpg While governments …
Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them
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Having enjoyed brief media coverage, world attention towards climate change during the last few weeks did not end with a bang. Instead, it fizzled out, bogged down in international policy and technicalities at the UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi last week. Why?
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