Energy Policy

Climate policy – Nov 2

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US Inspector Generals probe allegations that global warming findings were suppressed /
MIT survey: climate tops Americans’ environmental concerns /
UK Stern Report sells climate short /
You can’t do it all with mirrors /
Why we must ration the future /
2050 too late for climate change action: former U.S. adviser

Reactions to the Stern Report

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How climate change is revolutionizing economics /
The approaching storm: economists have seen it for years /
Fossil fools: OPEC, Australia and USA say global warming doesn’t exist /

OPEC says British climate change report “unfounded” /
UK Insurance Journal on the Stern Report

NZ energy minister: ‘the end of cheap oil’

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Whether conventional oil production will peak in the next year, or the next decade or a decade or two later, is moot. But it will peak and, in policy terms, the timeframe is short…
The Government believes the more serious and more immediate problem is climate change, and that is why we as a nation need to actively reduce the greenhouse gas emissions produce.

Drastic action on climate change is needed now – and here’s the plan

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It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern’s report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to prevent runaway climate change than to seek to live with it.