UK BUSINESS leaders are offering to work in partnership with the UK government to develop a 'world-leading' climate change policy,to dramatically scale up investment in low-carbon technologies,and to increase support for action on climate change.The offer was made in a letter sent to the UK'...
Climate change is accelerating – and the UK government is ‘strikingly unprepared’ Published: March 30, 2023 2.20am AEDT Sam Fankhauser Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford … The CCC criticised the government’snationa...
policy calibrationstranded assetsEmission reductions improve the chances that dangerous anthropogenic climate change will be averted, but could also cause some firms financial distress. Corporate failures, especially if they are unnecessary, add to the social cost of abatement. Social value can be ...
Since the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the issue of climate change has been central to policy agendas. In the UK, policy on climate change occurs at a range of policy levels, and falls under the remit of a...
The Johnson Administration's climate policy takes the Climate Change Act as the purpose of action, continues and strengthens the "climate heritage" of Theresa May's government, and continues to strengthen policy efforts under the dual background of “brexit” and the COVID-19. In the future, ...
7 November 2024 | Climate change, UK Ramboll and NGO Impact on Urban Health identify five capacities for a complete approach Business E&S consultants welcome government’s 'growth' budget 7 November 2024 | Business, Infrastructure, UK With Labour’s focus on infrastructure investment, consu...
Science-policy Co-production Communication 1. Introduction As the human and physical effects of climate change continually increase, so has policy attention to climate adaptation (Massey and Huitema, 2016; Vogel and Henstra, 2015). This has significant spatial planning challenges and scientific uncertain...
06-07 "The Economics of Inaction on Climate Change: A Sensitivity Analysis" Economic models of climate change often take the problem seriously, but paradoxically conclude that the optimal policy is to do almost nothing about it. We... F Ackerman,IJ Finlayson - 《Climate Policy》 被引量: 136...
HomeEnvironmentClimate Change UK Government Is Ignoring Public Opinion on Climate Change UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak continues to delay climate action despite public backing for green policy, new Greenpeace UK survey finds. He insists his decision to delay aims to reduce financial impact on “workin...
The UK Climate Change Program that includes CCL and ETS is an interesting policy package involving voluntary agreements, financial incentives, technical standards, and various supporting measures to households and SMEs. In this paper we highlight two characteristic aims of the program (i.e., ...