environment and climate change Articles

An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital – it punishes it. The structure of our economy is broken. The governor of the Bank of England calls it the tragedy of the horizon, that point beyond the standard market outlook of 2-3 years where...

Over half a million people signed a petition against the government’s plans to sell off the public forest estate in 2012, with countless local groups rising from the Forest of Dean to Morpeth to save their woods. The forest sell off fiasco encapsulated everything that...

It is worth pausing over one of Labour’s policy commitments, which Ed Miliband reiterated last week: decarbonising the UK power sector by 2030. Think about that. That is just over 15 years away – within many of our working lives. And Labour has already set out plans...

Energy policy in both Britain and Germany is failing. The question which should be on today’s agenda for David Cameron and Angela Merkel is whether both countries can learn from failure and find a better way forward. Failure in this case means not meeting the set...