Report claims Rishi Sunak has unique opportunity to invest in zero-carbon infrastructure
With the base rate in the eurozone still at 0%, funds are flowing back to the US using a myriad of financial instrumentsWhile governments around the world contemplate the fallout from Donald Trump’s trade war with China,...
Cutting carbon emissions is but one aspect of the changes needed for the infrastructure and mode of operation of the UK (Osborne reveals deal with former Blair ally, 5 October)...
The owner of British Gas should be leading the debate on domestic energy security, not just relentlessly focusing on corporate enrichmentCentrica should have an important role to play in the debate over Britain's future energy...
The other day m'learned colleague Ambrose Evans Pritchard wrote a piece in praise of money-printing. What the world needs is more Quantitative Easing, he argued, though this time deployed in "nuclear force." I have no doubt...
The UK's former chief scientific adviser argued for the greening of the UK's infrastructure, and a more efficient use of resourcesThe billions of pounds the Bank of England is pouring into banks in a bid to get lending flowing...
One of the understandable issues of concern which has been raised during David Cameron's Brokeback-Mountain-style bonding session with his fellow liberal Barack Obama is the rising price of oil...
Let's get one thing clear: Obama unquestionably ranks among the bottom five presidents in US history. In terms of sublime awfulness he's right up there with our late and extremely unlamented ex-PM Gordon Brown – which...
With the global climate crisis growing ever more urgent, the sharp rise in the UK's carbon emissions in 2010 is deeply worrying – and raises serious questions about the progress being made in our energy and climate change...
I just finished reading a book called Anatomy of the Bear where the point was made that rising new car sales are a leading indicator for the end of recession...
Figure 1 Oil supply - demand - price chart, Jan. 2002 to Nov. 2009. See text for explanation. Click to enlarge and open in separate browser window.
Idea of a national investment bank to steer economy towards low carbon future gains groundGeorge Osborne is floating the idea of a green investment bank to get new technologies out of the lab and into new wealth-creating...
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