On 19 March 2011 07:42, Hugh Sharman wrote http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00zf34j/Costing_the_Earth_Carbon_Trading and please get it onto Claverton On 3/19/2011 3:08 AM, Chris Hodrien wrote: Hugh, fascinating and important stuff. I missed this. Please provide programme details +BBC podcast weblink. One of my Warwick Univ international MSc students did the ineffectiveness of the ETS +CDM for her […]
Read MoreWho's to blame for high commodity – energy, food, metals, prices – it's the producers, stupid, not the banks and speculators
Happy New Year everyone. This article of mine re markets might be of interest (also below). http://seekingalpha.com/article/245574-who-s-to-blame-for-high-commodity-prices-it-s-the-producers-stupid v=1294568746&source=tracking_notify In my view commodity markets have two price boundary ‘trend-lines’: a ‘sellers’ market’ upper boundary, where consumer demand destruction sets in, and a ‘buyers’ market’ lower boundary, where ‘production destruction’ sets in. The current situation, where finance […]
Read MoreWrong-Footing the CRC – Carbon Reduction Commitment DECC
The Carbon Reduction Commitment or CRC came into effect this April and appears to have taken many by sur-prise. One newspaper suggested that as many as 43% of potential CRC partici-pants had never heard of it. The timetable for the scheme is such that those organisations claiming igno-rance will fail to register by the end […]
Read Morea regular up to date source of hard info on renewable energy- Renew
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Read MoreSenior Electricity and Industry Executives Discuss National Energy Policy at Claverton Energy Group Conference 23/25th October
8th Claverton Energy Group Conference 23/25th October, Wessex Water, Bath BA27WW
Read More'Tax the privileged and reduce the deadweight costs' – from Chris Cook, Claverton, letter in Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2b060736-2a1e-11de-9d01-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1 Published: April 16 2009 03:00 | Last updated: April 16 2009 03:00 From Mr Chris Cook. Sir, I am sure British correspondents will also be pointing out that it is not just the US tax code that is broken (“Mending America’s broken tax code”, Editorial, April 14), but this misses a deeper point. The […]
Read More"These Fossil Fools" – Catherine Mitchell – excellent article in the Guardian on futility of market solutions to climate change
The UK’s energy policy has to focus on lowering carbon emissions by a combination of renewable energy and reducing demand. This requires a system almost entirely different from that we have in place today: one that is conducive to innovation and change; and one that is flexible and resilient to all sorts of technological futures.
Read MoreSenior Energy Analyst reports on biochar as economic method of CCS
Hi Claverton,
Just read this on bio-char.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/67843ec0-020b-11de-8199-000077b07658.html.
Sound’s good to me. At £9/tonne this seems a sizeable contribution to GHG
reduction at a carbon price we already have in the EU cap and trade system.
I think the silver buckshot Al Gore cites will have many such low tech, low
cost solutions. For me making charcoal is an intuitively correct solution
as it seems to be a simple way of compressing the natural carbon capture
cycle that can be done at low capital costs and with lots of other benefits
as well.
Rgds
M
Read MoreEcoTrack: project monitoring for the carbon market
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CHANCELLOR RECEIVES PROPOSAL FOR RESOLUTION OF REPETITIVE BOOM AND BUST
I am writing this open letter to you on behalf of the Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ). In response to the seriousness of the current economic crisis a number of think tanks, charities and pressure groups across the political spectrum recently decided to join forces as the CEJ. We propose the introduction of an annual Land Value Tax (LVT) to replace or reduce existing taxes on enterprise and labour in order to prevent future economic crises and alleviate the current one. The resolution below, passed at our first meeting sets out our broad position. (Set out at the foot of this letter is a list of the organisations concerned.)
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