Posted in Comment on 04/01/2010 02:49 pm by Stephen Tindale
This week, I have been to Poland to talk at a Demos Europa conference on CCS in that country. Poland has the ninth largest global coal reserves, but does not have significant oil or gas reserves. In 2006, 93% of its electricity came from coal and 91% of its heat, so 58.5% of total energy was from coal. Its economy is growing, despite the recession, and a significant number of existing coal stations will have to close over the next 15 years.
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Posted in Comment on 12/01/2009 04:20 pm by Stephen Tindale
It will be cheaper to control climate change than not to control it, as the Stern Review memorably said. However, that does not mean that it will be cheap.
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Posted in Comment on 06/10/2011 09:53 am by Stephen Tindale
This summarizes a seminar held by Climate Strategies and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations on why the EU should strengthen its climate and energy policies.
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Posted in Comment on 12/11/2012 11:02 am by Stephen Tindale
CER has now published my short policy brief ‘How to expand renewable energy after 2020′.
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Posted in Comment on 12/16/2011 09:35 am by Stephen Tindale
Durban was better than Copenhagen and a bit better than Cancun. However, it was basically just an agreement to keep talking. Policy makers must not allow international negotiations to exclude progress on national and regional measures.
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Posted in Comment on 11/18/2010 07:25 am by Stephen Tindale
The Cancun climate summit should focus on how to get investment into low-carbon energy, rather than on legally-binding targets (which won’t be agreed anyway). The EU can take a lead here, as former Swedish Finance Minister Allan Larsson is arguing.
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Posted in Comment on 03/19/2014 07:23 am by Stephen Tindale
It’s time for energy policy wonks to move beyond the TLAs (three letter acronyms) and talk human.
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Posted in Comment on 11/26/2009 01:12 pm by Stephen Tindale
Last night, I went to hear the UK’s shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, give a speech about what a UK Conservative government would do about diplomacy and climate change. This is one of a series of speeches on climate from the shadow cabinet this week, which is encouraging.
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Posted in Comment on 12/27/2011 02:17 pm by Stephen Tindale
The European Commission should focus on proposing specific policies, rather than modelling different scenarios. It has done well with its energy efficiency proposal; now it should propose strengthening the ETS and setting a 2030 renewables target.
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Posted in Comment on 02/04/2010 01:00 pm by Stephen Tindale
On Tuesday 2 February 2010, European Union member states agreed to European Commission proposals on how to distribute billions of Euros collected under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to CCS and renewable energy projects.
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Posted in Comment on 01/04/2010 12:54 pm by Stephen Tindale
For the next six months, Spain holds the Presidency of the EU and, from the start of February, there will be a new European Commission. Spain and Germany lead the EU on wind and solar power, so there are good grounds to hope that the new leadership will result in a major speeding up of the low carbon transition.
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Posted in Comment on 01/07/2014 01:55 pm by Stephen Tindale
The German “Energiewende” is not doing as well as often claimed; but climate protection is too important for point-scoring or schadenfreude.
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Posted in Comment on 10/07/2011 07:03 am by Stephen Tindale
The EU has long prided itself on leading international efforts to control climate change. Today, the issue is nowhere near the top of the EU’s agenda, having been eclipsed by the economic downturn and the eurozone debt crisis.
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Posted in Comment on 11/08/2011 03:47 pm by Stephen Tindale
Comment on the launch of the European Climate Foundation’s latest report, Power Perspectives 2030.
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Posted in Policy on 12/03/2009 02:36 am by
So climate change has claimed a political victim in Australia and you don’t know whether to laugh or cry…
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Posted in Policy on 07/01/2010 05:31 am by Stephen Tindale
The demand to ‘make the polluter pay’ by putting a price on the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced has been a major point of discussion and debate across Europe since the mid-1980s. This article summarises carbon and energy taxes existing in European countries and how effective they have been.
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Posted in Behaviour, Policy, Technology on 03/13/2009 05:30 pm by Stephen Tindale
Our website, Climateanswers.info, is broadly split up into three: technological answers, political answers and behavioural answers.
Why have we done this?
Well, this site is really about actions and not prohibitions – what we can do, rather than just what we shouldn’t. We do not wear hair shirts at Climate Answers and we are born optimists!
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- Tags: 'cap-and-trade', biochar, carbon, carbon capture, electric cars, emission trading schemes, fiscal reform, nuclear power, organic food, solar power, wind power
Posted in Repowering communities on 06/21/2010 10:09 am by Stephen Tindale
I am writing a book, with Prashant Vaze and Peter Meyer on the role that local, regional and state governments should play in increasing energy efficiency and promoting low carbon energy. This will be published by Earthscan in 2011.
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Posted in Policy on 10/20/2009 10:15 am by Stephen Tindale
In 1992, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) was signed at the first World Summit on Sustainable Development, which was held in Rio de Janeiro. The Convention did not set targets, but provided the framework for negotiations about targets. These were agreed in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
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