Last weekend, the United Kingdom Government announced a moratorium on fracking, based on evidence from a report by the Oil…
Tag: Fossil fuels
Pensions: Invest in our future, not the past
Dr Neil Jennings, Partnership Development Manager at the Grantham Institute, takes a look at the USS pensions scheme and considers…
Funding for low-carbon tech: Why the clean energy ministerial meeting changes everything and nothing
Grantham Institute Head of Policy and Translation, Alyssa Gilbert, thinks about the cosy blanket of funding, investment and support that…
Reforming harmful fossil fuel subsidies
Jo Tyndall, New Zealand’s Climate Change Ambassador, argues that the time has come for fossil fuel subsidies to be removed. This…
The end of UK coal – views from Imperial
UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd announced last week that UK coal power plants will be switched off by 2025. We asked…
UK climate and energy policy at a crossroads
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd announced today that UK coal power stations will be phased out by 2025, favouring new…
How can an oil and gas company prepare for a low carbon world?
In the run-up to the Paris 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), countries have been submitting their plans to…
The Future of the Arctic
By Victoria Burton, Stephane Mangeon, Christoph Mazur, Simon Moulds, Jonathan Ritson, Philip Sandwell, Rebecca Short, and Patric Simoes Pereira…