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		<title>11 December 2012: How to expand renewables after 2020</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/12/11-december-2012-how-to-expand-renewables-after-2020/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/12/11-december-2012-how-to-expand-renewables-after-2020/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tindale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biofuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emission trading schemes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CER has now published my short policy brief ‘How to expand renewable energy after 2020'.]]></description>
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		<title>The carbon crunch: how we’re getting climate change wrong – and how to fix it by Dieter Helm</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/11/the-carbon-crunch-how-were-getting-climate-change-wrong-and-how-to-fix-it-by-dieter-helm/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/11/the-carbon-crunch-how-were-getting-climate-change-wrong-and-how-to-fix-it-by-dieter-helm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tindale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://climateanswers.info/?p=6167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://climateanswers.info/2012/11/the-carbon-crunch-how-were-getting-climate-change-wrong-and-how-to-fix-it-by-dieter-helm/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://climateanswers.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-Carbon-Crunch4-132x200.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="The Carbon Crunch" /></a>Dieter Helm, professor of energy policy at Oxford University, is a leading voice in European energy policy. During 2011, he acted as a special adviser to energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger. Helm has now written a new book: The carbon crunch: how we’re getting climate change wrong – and how to fix it.]]></description>
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		<title>3 October 2012: Europe’s energy infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/10/3-october-2012-europes-energy-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/10/3-october-2012-europes-energy-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Trevelyan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Centre for European Reform has published my policy brief Connecting Europe’s energy systems.  In this, I argue that Europe’s energy infrastructure urgently needs to be modernised, to maximise renewable energy use, so the Commission’s proposals on infrastructure should be adopted as soon as possible (see Centre for European Reform: Connecting Europe&#8217;s energy systems).]]></description>
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		<title>2 July 2012: Saving emissions trading from irrelevance</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/07/2-july-2012-saving-emissions-trading-from-irrelevance/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/07/2-july-2012-saving-emissions-trading-from-irrelevance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tindale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://climateanswers.info/?p=5142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The European Emissions Trading System must be overhauled. The cap should be lowered, and combined with a price floor and ceiling and border tax adjustments.]]></description>
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		<title>25 May 2012: How to cut the cost of renewable energy</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/05/25-may-2012-how-to-cut-the-cost-of-renewable-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/05/25-may-2012-how-to-cut-the-cost-of-renewable-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tindale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[renewables]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Buchan has written a valuable paper on European electricity policy, in which he argues convincingly that harmonising the various national schemes would be more efficienct and so cut costs. The level of subsidy could continue to differ, but the design of the schemes should be made more consistent.]]></description>
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		<title>26 April 2012: Germany planning several new fossil fuel plants</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/04/25-april-2012-germany-planning-many-new-fossil-fuel-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/04/25-april-2012-germany-planning-many-new-fossil-fuel-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tindale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://climateanswers.info/?p=5126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Germany is planning several new coal and gas power stations - without CCS - to replace its nuclear stations. This is bad for the climate and also a waste of money.]]></description>
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		<title>13 April 2012: Energy efficiency &#8211; made in Denmark and exportable to the rest of the EU?</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/04/13-april-2012-energy-efficiency-made-in-denmark-exportable-to-the-rest-of-the-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/04/13-april-2012-energy-efficiency-made-in-denmark-exportable-to-the-rest-of-the-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tindale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[district heating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://climateanswers.info/?p=5116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Denmark, the current president of the European Council of Ministers, should stand firmly behind the Commission's proposals on energy efficiency and not give in to the demands of other member states.]]></description>
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		<title>9 April 2012: The EU Budget</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/04/9-april-2012-the-eu-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/04/9-april-2012-the-eu-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tindale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://climateanswers.info/?p=5110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centre for European Reform has now published a short paper by John Peet, who is Europe editor of the Economist, and me on the EU Budget.]]></description>
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		<title>2 April 2012: UK struggling with low-carbon bridge technologies</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/04/2-april-2012-uk-struggling-with-low-carbon-bridge-technologies/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/04/2-april-2012-uk-struggling-with-low-carbon-bridge-technologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tindale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://climateanswers.info/?p=5103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK is running another competition on CCS. But practical progress so far has been precisely zero. And Eon and RWE have pulled out of their UK nuclear joint venture. So there's a real risk that the UK will experience another 'dash for gas' without CCS.]]></description>
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		<title>15 March 2012: A response to four former Friends of the Earth directors on nuclear power</title>
		<link>http://climateanswers.info/2012/03/15-march-2012-response-to-4-former-friends-of-the-earth-directors-on-nuclear-power/</link>
		<comments>http://climateanswers.info/2012/03/15-march-2012-response-to-4-former-friends-of-the-earth-directors-on-nuclear-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tindale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four former heads of Friends of the Earth wrote to prime minister, David Cameron, earlier this week, arguing against nuclear power. In response, five environmental authors - including me - have written to Cameron arguing in favour of new nuclear.  ]]></description>
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