Bill Gates on Energy and Carbon
A hat tip to Tom Aedy for spotting this new TED video
read more...»Revision Presentation - Market Failure & the Environment
This new revision presentation examines the concept of market failure in the context of the environment.
Launch interactive version of Environmental Market Failure and Policy Options
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Climate Crunch - Making the Economics Fit
The erstwhile environmental campaigner, journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Porritt gave an impassioned talk on the politics and economics climate change at the LSE tonight. We are in a period of extraordinary turmoil in the global politics of climate change. Here in the UK, support for the idea of man-made climate change is actually lower at the end of 2009 despite one of the most expensive government information TV and cinema campaigns ever launched. But by and large, people seem to be turned off by the warnings of scary apocalyptic misery.
read more...»New Edition of Etonomics
The latest edition of our school economics magazine Etonomics has just been published. There are articles on digital economics, the national lottery and behavioural economics, game theory and climate change, the future for world aviation, microfinance and the inevitability (or otherwise) of economic recessions.
A download can be requested here:
Questions in Behavioural Economics - Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
Doug Swift
We know that Climate Change is one of the greatest perils facing modern man. Stronger hurricanes, rising sea levels, heat waves and droughts are all predicted to have occurred with virulent force before this century is out, yet such a global issue typically avoids individual action. Perhaps ‘Behavioural Economics’ can help us understand why.
Revision: Sustainable Development
The term ‘sustainable’ means ‘enduring’ and ‘lasting’ and ‘to keep in being’. According to one of the finest environmental economists of his generation, the late David Pearce, sustainable development means that each generation should pass on at least as much “capital” as it inherits, the Pearce approach defines capital in broad terms, to include physical capital (machinery and infrastructure); intellectual capital (knowledge and technology) and also environmental capital (environmental quality and the stock of natural resources).
read more...»The Costs of Cutting Carbon
Susan Watts from Newsnight has this excellent short video on some of the findings of the Committee for Climate Change and some of the costs and benefits of meeting stringent carbon reduction targets.
Last week the Financial Times ran a special feature on Climate Change and Business. Their climate change series is available here.
Cartoonists and Climate Change
Some stunningly good cartoons here in the Independent.
Stern warns that cost of tackling climate change has doubled
Nick Stern - perhaps the most famous economist alive in the world today? His talk at the RES Annual Lecture in November 2007 was one of the highlights of my year and no doubt his diary is full for the enxt couple of years at least! Lord Stern of Brentford is quoted as saying that the cost of tackling climate change has increased significantly since the publication of the Stern Report in October 2006. Speaking at the launch of the Carbon Ratings Agency he is quoted in the Guardian as saying that said evidence that climate change was happening faster than had been previously thought meant that emissions needed to be reduced even more sharply. The rest of the Guardian article is here.
Revision: Climate Change Policies
A brief revision PowerPoint used in a lesson on climate change policies .... I kept the analysis diagrams outside of the presentation
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Climate_Change_Policies.ppt
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