“Climate Calling: Inside EU Cities’ and Regions’ Green Race” Courtesy of CASE As the United Nations (UN) Conference of Parties (COP25) approaches together with the widely announced European Green Deal of the incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the end of year is once again dominated by climate-related discussions. What is different from […]
Tag: climate change
Bank of England tackles climate change with protective mountain of paper
“Central Banks’ Varied Approaches to the Financial Risks of Climate Change” By Gordon Kerr, Cavin O’Driscoll, and Enrico Colombatto, courtesy of IREF As the momentum has built behind calls for policy responses towards climate change, the ECB and the Bank of England have not been the quickest central banks to act. Back in […]
How to make the European Green New Deal work
By Grégory Claeys, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute European Commission president-designate Ursula von der Leyen has made climate change a top priority, promising to propose a European Green Deal that would make Europe climate neutral by 2050. The European Green Deal should be conceived as a reallocation […]
Spending more doesn’t equal polluting less
“A Real Green Economy Is Possible In France” By Michel Gay and Jean-Luc Salanave, courtesy of Contrepoints SPENDING MORE IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH POLLUTING LESS For 10 years the European climate policy based on renewable energy has been a failure. It has squandered tens […]
Carbon Taxes Will Never Be Enough
By Hayden Ludwig, Capital Research Center There’s a pervasive myth among “eco-cons”—conservatives who accept the theory of global warming—that we can tax our way out of a climate crisis. The myth goes like this: the Earth is getting dangerously warm and humanity is to […]
TES Weekly Update: Science Delivers, Politics Withers
Diabetes breakthrough shows there’s hope! Brexit mess shows… something else Our world remains a study in contrasts, and that’s about the most that can be said for it. On the one hand, a breakthrough in the clinical understanding of diabetes promises to quietly revolutionize the way we treat one of the world’s deadliest […]
Tackle climate change with tax cuts for innovation (not new taxes on carbon)
As with so many other important and controversial subjects, the left has laid claim to climate change lock, stock and barrel, claiming that only massive government intervention in the form of new taxes, profligate spending and rampant regulation can address the underlying causes […]
Do as ve say, not as ve do: German climate hypocrisy
Germany talks a good game on climate change and environmental policies, but unfortunately it appears to be mostly quatsch, as the country’s actions are far more matching its words, according to the European Council on Foreign Relations, which delivers a polite but damning overview of […]
Reaching UK climate targets will cost up to £20B per year
The UK has set itself the goal of achieving “net zero emissions” by the year 2050 — and that will require some serious new spending, according to a government report cited by The Guardian. The report, authored by analysts at Vivid Economics, […]
Much of “Green New Deal” has nothing to do with the environment
There a couple plans for the “Green New Deal” circulating in the U.S., UK, and elsewhere, all supposedly intended to tackle the causes of climate change with sweeping measures to de-carbonize society. Except as Tim Worstall of the UK’s Adam Smith Institute points out, […]