Investors can have a big role in supporting a just transition in the UK
This post is by Nick Robins, professor in practice for sustainable finance at the Grantham Research Institute. Read more
Tag Archives: climate policy
It’s time to include land use in climate policy
This post is by Sir Graham Wynne, Green Alliance trustee and chief executive of the RSPB from 1998 to 2010. Read more
Is it time to give climate policy a new home in government?
This post is by Hywel Lloyd, Green Alliance associate and author of A framework for action: next steps for regulatory and policy powers over energy in Wales Read more
Resource efficiency is the UK’s missing climate policy
As the UK government lobbies to host crucial UN climate talks in 2020, it can rightly claim to have demonstrated leadership on this pressing global issue. We were the first country in the world to set legally binding budgets for carbon. We have shown it’s possible to grow our economy while reducing emissions to meet the first three legally binding carbon budgets. And we are preparing to go further: climate change minister Claire Perry recently indicated that she wants the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), which sets the budgets, to investigate a target for net zero emissions by 2050.
Want less red tape and more cost effective energy and climate policy? Head to Brussels
The EU is on the brink of setting its energy and climate future, and must agree a new policy framework for 2030 by March 2014, ahead of international climate talks in Paris this December.
In reaction to the European Commission’s green paper on options for the 2030 climate and energy policy framework last March, Europe’s largest trade association, Business Europe, suggested European manufacturing was being left behind. It stated, “Europe’s major competitors, the US and China are reindustrialising on the back of low energy costs. Meanwhile the current EU energy and climate policy is driving up costs through inconsistencies in EU policies as well as uncoordinated and heavy-handed national government intervention in energy markets.” Read more
