TalkClimateChange

Following the discussion on the Stern report’s projections for the economic cost / benefit of tackling climate change, I’d like to introduce a new perspective: The cost of climate change avoidance is irrelevant, since most of today’s avoidance schemes are wholly ineffective anyway.
I make this assertion following UK treasury projections that the “green levy” on […]

Much ado has been made about the UK’s latest budget presented by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling last week.
Green groups universally panned Darling for failing to take a hard line on environmental issues, and particularly for failing to implement a 2 pence tax increase on petrol.
“This was billed as the greenest budget ever. But […]

Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone has recently introduced a significant increase to London’s congestion charge for drivers of gas guzzling cars. Presently drivers must pay £8 per day to enter the ‘congestion change zone’ in the centre of the city. Drivers of hybrids and low emissions vehicles are exempt from the charge, whilst under the […]

First tensions are emerging between EU lawmakers and businesses as plans are cemented to implement EU targets for climate change.
Joining the Red Team this week are French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and the European Trade Union Confederation, and joining the Green Team please welcome European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
Unions in Europe have expressed […]

The European Union is currently considering proposals to levy import taxes on goods from countries that do not sign up to emissions treaties.
Taxes will likely be charged based on the equivalent price of an EU emissions permit for specific goods as a way of levelling the playing field between goods manufactured subject to emissions cap […]