Is the sea level rising?
The Spectator last week questioned the reports that sea levels around the world are rising. (Read the article, by Nils-Axel Mörner, here.) Higher sea levels are generally expected to be …
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Keynesianism and the environment
I was asked to give a short talk at a conference this weekend on environmental policy and the influence of Keynes. Now Keynes was a major, if not the major, …
Environmental standards: who decides?
A happy day when the same interesting issue arises in two separate news stories. First, over in America, President Obama is supposedly about to change the rules on the regulation …
Greening America to green the world
By Professor Satish Desai OBE, 3 December 2008 Introduction The world has experienced many unfortunate events, e.g. the World War II (WWII) that was perhaps the last serious event. WWII was …
Where does our water come from?
The WWF published a report this week on the use and abuse of water supplies, which attracted the headline that the average person in the UK uses 4,645 litres of …
Nothing at the centre
A spotter draws my attention to this comment by Tony Blair, made in connection with his new role with the Climate Group attempting to negotiate a new international agreement to …
On another planet
Interesting talk from Professor Tim Lang this evening on food security. (Read him on the Quotebank here.) He was spelling out the state of the world’s food supply and suggesting …
Arnold Schwarzenegger: California wants to work with Europe
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, also said: “California hopes to link its planned emissions trading system to the European Union’s market, boosting efforts to build a global mechanism to fight …
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David Baldock: The world now looks to Europe for leadership on the environment
David Baldock, Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy said: “Few Governments, in Britain or elsewhere, have been ready to acknowledge how far progress on the environment in their …
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A fashionable delusion about biofuels
Interesting that Open Europe, the anti-European campaign group, has published a report criticising the EU policy on biofuels. Read a summary of the report here and the whole report here. …