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environment policy Archive
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Is the sea level rising?
Posted on 08/12/2011 | No CommentsThe 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 one of the consequences of global warming, so if sea levels do not rise (or,... -
Keynesianism and the environment
Posted on 28/06/2009 | No CommentsI 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, economic thinker of the first half of the 20th century at a time when environmental... -
Environmental standards: who decides?
Posted on 26/01/2009 | No CommentsA 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 of vehicle emissions. (Read about this here.) George W Bush’s policy was that states were... -
Greening America to green the world
Posted on 03/12/2008 | No CommentsBy 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 the result of many circumstances, e.g. surging nationalism, protectionist policies and inability of the League... -
Where does our water come from?
Posted on 21/08/2008 | No CommentsThe 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 water day. (Read about the report here.) Where does all that water come from? The... -
Nothing at the centre
Posted on 17/03/2008 | No CommentsA 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 fight climate change. “What I found, whilst still in office as prime minister, was that... -
On another planet
Posted on 04/03/2008 | 1 CommentInteresting 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 a few of the things that need to be done. A number of the points... -
Arnold Schwarzenegger: California wants to work with Europe
Posted on 24/02/2008 | No CommentsArnold 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 climate change” (Reuters, 29th March 2007). -
David Baldock: The world now looks to Europe for leadership on the environment
Posted on 24/02/2008 | No CommentsDavid 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 own countries has depended on agreements at a European level. Standards have been raised across... -
A fashionable delusion about biofuels
Posted on 27/01/2008 | 5 CommentsInteresting 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. Why are opponents of the EU choosing its biofuel policy as target? They are right...
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