One of the most important moments at the recent Bangkok UNFCCC meeting was the release by the IEA of its Climate Change Excerpt to the …
Category: Low carbon economy
Shipping makes a move
Late last week a significant development came from an equally significant slice of the global shipping community – support for action to reduce CO2 emissions …
How many electric vehicles??
At a recent UK Government stakeholder meeting in London the issue of transport and electric cars came up. Based on information from an adviser on …
A tectonic shift in Japan
A tectonic shift may be underway in Japan, but not of the sort normally associated with this country and its frequent earth tremors. Rather, a …
A bit of concrete thinking
During my second year at University I worked for two months in a cement plant as part of the “practical experience” element of my chemical …
Tough measures deliver in Scandinavia
It may be vacation time, but I find I am not far away from the world of climate policy – in fact a trip with …
A Short History of the Future of Transport
Probably without really thinking much about it, we have pretty much engineered our entire society around the distillation curve of a barrel of crude oil …
The electric car on the move??
On a shopping trip in London’s West End on Saturday I came across the first real signs of the dawn of the electric car – …
The last 20%
In the last 24 hours we have heard much from the G8 meeting in Italy on climate change as world leaders debate reduction targets for …
The cost of cap and trade?
As Waxman-Markey starts to bed into the consciousness of the US, there has been a rush to calculate the “cost” of climate legislation – some …
