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An unlikely encounter – Günther and Gross
Some people don’t like it when the dimension of time is distorted. Yet, it happened at least once in Telford. A most unlikely encounter occurred when Günther, an EU bureaucrat in 2012, bumped into Derek Gross, travel porn mogul in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change policy, The Chronicles of Nat Eb
Tagged carbon pricing, Derek Gross, growth, Günther, price signals, slowness, veganism
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Can the debt crisis help cure the EU ETS?
“Drop everything!” cried Günther the other day, bursting through my door. His voice was trembling with excitement. “We have the solution; you won’t believe it. It is so elegantly simple. And … totally legal,” he purred. I sat him down, … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, debt crisis, EU Emission Trading Scheme, EU ETS, Greece, Günther, set-aside
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Signal confusion
Does the EUA price constitute a signal or not? Should it? Trevor Sikorsky of Barclays Capital argues in Barclays’ Quarterly Carbon Standard (26th March 2012) that: “It is expectations that drive such investment [in clean technology] … not current prices.” … Continue reading
What will we do with our money? Or: is clean-tech self-defeating?
Environmental policy is predicated on a certain vision of the world. It’s a clean version of today’s world. It’s got all the comfort and convenience and fulfilment of today’s world without the smells. To build the clean world policy-makers insist … Continue reading