29 October 2019: The Netherlands has launched the latest round of its renewable energy subsidy programme SDE+ this week, with a budget to the tune of €5 billion (~US$5.6 billion).
28 October 2019: Experts from adelphi, Climate Focus, and Perspectives Climate Group, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Security have studied a number
This paper applies insights from behavioural economics literature to design options in climate policy to make suggestions on how to create and pass effective climate regulation. The paper makes three
29 October 2019: The UK’s three largest power generators: SSE, Drax, and Orsted were joined by a climate change NGO Sandbag in an open letter to the HM Treasury in
31 October 2019: The government of the Canadian province of Alberta unveiled the details of its planned Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Regulation (TIER). The regulation will put a price
31 October 2019: Last week, in response to the results of the Canadian federal election, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs announced he would look at options for implementing a carbon price in
23 October 2019: In 2016, only 9% of Canada’s plastic waste was recycled and as much as 75% of total waste ended up in landfills. Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission argues there
Lecuyer and Quirion (2019) examine the interactions between a CO2 emissions trading system (ETS) and renewable energy subsidies under uncertainty over electricity demand and energy costs. They find that when
22 October 2019: Results from Canada’s federal election secured Prime Minister Justin Trudeau another term in power, although they did cost him a majority government. Overall, however, the vote has
17 October 2019: Negotiations on the post-2020 EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) started in June last year with the publication of European Commission proposals to reform environmental conditionalities attached to
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