The OECD has recently published a valuable report on the role that public policy can play in affecting our household behaviour. Household consumption patterns and behaviour have an impact on stocks of natural resources, environmental quality and climate change. This is expected to increase significantly in the future. In response, governments have introduced a variety … Continue reading New report: Greening Household Behaviour: The Role of Public Policy
Kenya doing much to promote renewables
Ray Obiero writes for the Thomson Reuters Foundation about the efforts underway in Kenya to promote renewable energy. Kenya is attracting funding for its renewable energy sector because of green policy changes in recent years. Kenya shifts renewable energy funding The recent announcement by the Kenya electricity generating company (Kengen) inviting bids for joint development … Continue reading Kenya doing much to promote renewables
The on-going debate about global warming and economists
John Abraham and Dana Nuccitelli have a regular blog in The Guardian called Climateconsensus – the 97%. In this blog, John Abraham explains why he feels the 2009 publication, SuperFreakonomics, is misleading on climate change. Global Warming and Economists - SuperFreakonomics is SuperFreakingWrong Those who purchased the book SuperFreakonomics are paying to be misled about … Continue reading The on-going debate about global warming and economists
How Europe is making the transition to green urban transportation
Erica Gies writes in the New York Times about efforts in Europe to integrate the old with the new to develop a much greener approach to urban transit. Examples are given from Austria, France and Germany. In Europe, Greener Transit on Existing Infrastructure Vienna is employing some old-fashioned technology to run shiny new electric buses … Continue reading How Europe is making the transition to green urban transportation
A novel approach in Norway leads to the winner’s circle
Trust someone from Norway, with the enormous reserves of oil and gas in the country, to come up with an idea to actually pay countries to leave fossil fuels in the ground. Pilita Clark writes in The Financial Times of a prize winning idea by a Norwegian academic. Norwegian’s provocative plan to curb climate … Continue reading A novel approach in Norway leads to the winner’s circle
The health and wealth of cities
Tim Smedley writes in the Guardian about a new report by the Carbon Disclosure Project that discusses the positive impact of climate change on cities. It will be interesting to see how this is received by the environmental community. Is climate change making cities wealthier and healthier? A new report on climate change action … Continue reading The health and wealth of cities
‘Fuel poverty’ policy changes in the UK
Steve Hawkes writes in The Telegraph about the change in definition of fuel poverty that will remove up to one million people from being considered fuel poor. Is this a good move or not? Campaigners certainly do not think so. Government takes 1m out of fuel poverty - by changing the rules Campaigners criticised … Continue reading ‘Fuel poverty’ policy changes in the UK
Champagne’s energy efficiency moment
Camille Chandès writes in L’Usine Nouvelle about the efforts of Moët-Hennessy Champagne to improve its energy efficiency. The company felt it was quite a challenge because of the age-old techniques they have used to produce one of the world’s most famous champagnes. What is good to see is that all new investments now require an … Continue reading Champagne’s energy efficiency moment
Pot pourri
Here are some important briefs: IPEEC looking for Executive Director – The International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC) is a high-level international forum that provides global leadership on energy efficiency by identifying and facilitating government implementation of policies and programmes that yield high energy-efficiency gains. IPEEC also aims to promote information exchange on best … Continue reading Pot pourri
It can be an entirely new ball game with energy efficiency
Batter up? Major league baseball may have its world series, even though it only includes two countries at most, but sometimes there can be lessons learned around the world. Who would have thought it would be related to energy efficiency though. Brad Harkavy of Sagewell emphasises the importance of deploying resources wisely. Well, it is … Continue reading It can be an entirely new ball game with energy efficiency
