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 …
A study of 245 large dams carried out at Oxford University shows that big hydropower is uneconomic. Actual costs are typically double pre-construction estimates - and have not improved over 70 years. ASEAN energy ministers take note!
… April 2014 News Water Energy Malaysia Asia Economics Renewables bakun-dam.jpg A study of …
A new carbon 'tax and dividend' climate strategy would strengthen our economy, reduce regulation, help working class Americans, shrink government, promote national security, and reduce emissions, write eight senior US conservative politicians, financiers and academics. Now Republican control of all branches of the US government makes it an opportunity not to miss!
… climate change reflects poor science and poor economics, and is at odds with the party's own … He is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President … Bush. He is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Rob Walton …
China has just recorded its first fall in emissions from burning fossil fuels in 15 years, writes Lauri Myllyvirta. The sharp decline has surprised analysts, and reflects the fast growing proportion of renewables in the country's power supply.
China's fossil fuel emissions fell 3% in 2014 Lauri Myllyvirta Greenpeace EnergyDesk | 27th February 2015 News China Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Emissions Climate Change Renewables …
Levels of CO2 are at their the highest in 800,000 years, writes Tim Radford, but news of a probable decline in emissions this year is providing welcome cheer at the COP21 climate summit: thanks to renewables, economic growth and falling emissions can go hand in hand.
… Climate Change Emissions Renewables COP21 Economics china-coal-cut.jpg Levels of CO2 are …
Current oil price volatility is a symptom of the end of cheap oil, writes Nafeez Ahmed, and it's destablising the entire global economy. The answer is a major shift to renewables - but the the International Energy Agency, which should be leading the transition, is in the grip of nuclear and fossil fuel interests. Instead the leadership must come from us, the people!
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When Chancellor George Osborne delivers his Budget next month, we can be sure that climate and environment won't take a high priority, writes Alan Simpson. All the more reason for the Labour leadership to develop a new 'one planet' economics for the 21st century that delivers social justice and respects ecological limits.
… Simpson | 5th February 2016 Comment Politics Economics UK Climate Change Emissions Energy … leadership to develop a new 'one planet' economics for the 21st century that delivers … forlornly explaining the virtues of an economics that puts back more than it takes …
China's 2015 carbon emissions fell for the second year running, by an amount equal to all of Poland's, while total power consumption increased, writes Lauri Myllyvirta. Credit goes to the massive expansion in renewable energy, with a record-breaking 47GW of wind and solar capacity added.
China's renewables drive down CO2 emissions Lauri Myllyvirta Greenpeace Energydesk | 21st January 2016 News China Climate Change Energy Coal Renewables china-solar-cut.jpg China's 2015 carbon …
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 …
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.
… 23rd March 2007 News Budget Gordon Brown Lets Economics Spending Incentives Taxation Tax Green UK Economics Finance Carbon Dioxide Global … Subsidies World Bank Fair Trade Politics And Economics Society Ecologist_archive_MAIN_3.jpg …
The governor of the Bank of England recently argued that the risk to the stability of the financial system from climate change is a responsibility of central banks, writes Matthias Kroll. They can begin by using QE - 'quantitative easing' - to finance the Green Climate Fund, and so stimulate the economy, rescue the climate, and save the global financial system.
… Comment Finance Climate Change Green Economy Economics Energy Renewables COP21 … World Future Council. He studied political economics, sociology and law at the Hamburg University for Economics and Politics and gains a PhD in …
For the second year running CO2 emissions flatlined even as the global economy was growing at around 3%, writes Alex Kirby. But sharply rising temperatures show the need for further massive renewable energy deployment to actually bring emissions down.
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New York state recently set a terrible example by approving a $7.6 billion bailout of failing nuclear power plants, writes PETER BRADFORD. But other states aren't following. including California and Nebraska, where a host of highly competitive clean energy technologies are filling in the power shortfall left by nuclear closures, at much lower cost. It's time to let old nuclear reactors die.
… Comment Nuclear Energy Renewables USA Finance Economics diablo-canyon-cut.jpg New York state … in order to reach US climate change targets. Economics have always challenged US reactors. … cheap to meter" is today used to mock nuclear economics, not commend them. As late as 1972 …
Plans for a tidal barrage across the River Severn to produce hydroelectric power have been scrapped due to financial constraints as government confirms eight sites for new nuclear power plants
… have neither'. But Greenpeace said today the economics of nuclear did not add up and that …
As the European Commission considers the £100 billion subsidy package the UK has offered EDF to build and operate Hinkley C nuclear power station, Paul Dorfman explains why the 'deal' is illegal, anti-renewables, and ruinous to energy users and tax payers.
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China's smog is an increasing cause of public discontent, writes Oliver Wild - and no wonder! New research shows that the country's air pollution is killing over a million people every year. Thanks to China's geography the problem is hard to solve, but the rapid rise of renewables and the slow demise of coal do offer the promise of cleaner, healthier future.
China's smog kills over a million each year - but there's blue skies ahead Oliver Wild Lancaster University | 19th October 2015 News Health Pollution Air China Energy Coal Renewables …
Nuclear power is suffering one of its worst ever years, writes JIM GREEN. Even nuclear enthusiasts agree that the industry is in crisis. The bankruptcy filing by US nuclear giant Westinghouse has sent a cold chill through the industry which elsewhere, is suffering from crippling economic problems, successful legal challenges, and public opposition
Nuclear power's annus horribilis Jim Green | 13th July 2017 News Nuclear Renewables Hinckley Point Economic Downturn hinkley c.jpg Nuclear power is suffering one of its worst ever years, writes JIM …
The Yale Project on Climate Change has just published a new report examining what the American public would like the second-term Obama administration and Congress to do about global warming. Here are some highlights from Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies September 2012.
Americans want Congress to make renewables a top priority The Ecologist | 14th November 2012 News Climate Change Obama Renewables yale highlights.jpg The Yale Project on Climate Change has just …
Hydrogen made from renewable electricity is already fuelling vehicles at affordable prices, writes DAVID THORPE. But now the 'green' fuel is set to go from niche to mainstream - powering not just cars, trucks and buses, but storing surplus renewable energy on sunny and windy days, then to be burnt in gas turbines or fuel cells to supply the grid with reliable power on demand.
… August 2016 News Renewables Energy Transport Economics Wind Solar hydrogen-cut.jpg Hydrogen … excess wind and solar power. "Clearly the economics of P2G are a function of such … low concentrations into natural gas. "So the economics are also a function of the value …
A new campaign group is trying to push through reforms that would give customers a choice in investments and make banks more socially useful. But can it break through the banking bottleneck?
… | 17th August 2011 Activism Politics & Economics Ethical Banking Positive Money … a choice.' Despite being the new kids on the economics block, Positive Money's ideas have … but not exclusively made up of disillusioned economics graduates) earned the group …
The Walton family, owners of Walmart and Asda, project a 'public environmentalism', writes Mike Gaworecki. But their real agenda is to advance a monopolistic corporate economic model that is threatened by decentralised energy solutions like rooftop solar. The answer? Exterminate!
Walmart, Asda owners using their billions to attack rooftop solar Mike Gaworecki DeSmogBlog | 20th November 2014 News USA Solar Renewables Energy first-solar-cut.jpg The Walton family, owners of …