Blog posts with the tag: "Climate"
Monday 4 February 2013
Global new investment in renewable energy has risen from $22 billion in 2004 to $211 billion in 2010[1] driven almost entirely by subsidies. Subsidies have been justified by the perceived need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to combat global warming and the need to support renewable generation technologies until they are cost-effective. Now the on-going…
Friday 1 February 2013
The Green Deal – A Big Green Secret? Evidently, according to press reports in the UK, no one knows about The Green Deal. It’s a big, green, energy efficiency secret. Since its announcement only five households have signed up and according to a YouGov poll for uSwitch, four out of five people in the…
Dr Steven Fawkes
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- Sometimes I feel the need to move on
- Dimming the lights of democracy
- Investing in natural capital has to become the norm
- Earthrise – the legacy of Bill Anders and Apollo 8
- And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger
- The journey to net zero
- The RetroMeter project: using metered energy savings to make energy efficiency more investable
