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Following Copenhagen, bullish advocates for the carbon market are now “moderately optimistic”. The UK’s Carbon Trust highlights the positives and negatives of the Copenhagen Accord. On the plus side, it notes the goal to limit
Full story...On January 8th the UK’s Crown Estate, which owns the seabed, announced the winners under the latest round of offshore windfarm licencing, known as Round 3. Round 1, which was held in 2001, was a “demonstration” round that offered
Full story...Over the past few years, the battle for market share in battery sales has been really heating up. And, it is easy to see why – to the victor will go unimaginable spoils. With consumer electronics loaded with applications that
Full story...There have been several attempts to introduce a unitary carbon tax across all EU member states over several decades but to date success has never actually materialised. It is argued by some member states that some would be worse
Full story...It is 60 years since Chairman Mao came to power, but it was certainly not he who set China on the path to economic power. The honour for that goes to Deng Xiaoping, the leader who started a series of economic and political
Full story...Last week research led by the Met office forecast that London could have summer temperatures up to 40 degrees C by 2080. The report said that flooding, storms, droughts and heatwaves are all to become more common as a result of
Full story...This week Dominic talks to Robin Griffiths, author with William Houston of Water: The Final Resource. How the Politics Of Water Will Affect The World.
Full story...One might think the United States would be charging hard on energy security as well as border and other kinds of security in its Global War on Terror campaign. Not so. For example, America imports some 12 million barrels of oil
Full story...“Where are we now? We’re back where we started.” So says Richard Lockwood, manager of London’s City Natural Resources fund - now part of CQS - a man who rode the recent commodities boom upwards in some style, and who appears to
Full story...Tea was a bonus that came to Georgia from the Mongols and the merchants of the Silk Route. Parts of the Silk Route also became the Great Tea Road. Caravans of hundreds of camels took 16 months to make the 11,000 mile journey from
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