Montel: Critics scorn proposals to extend ETS to heating, transport
Michael Pollitt, Professor of Business Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on carbon trading emission scheme. “The key aspect of an emissions trading scheme is the quantity limitation – it’s not the same as a common carbon tax,” he…
The Hill: Europe should learn from California’s carbon trading
Robert Ritz, Senior Research Associate at Cambridge Judge Business School co-authored an op-ed discussing Europe’s climate policy and what lessons should be learnt from the US “Europe should seize this opportunity to exert positive influence in the world — and…
De Volkskrant: Minimum price for CO2
The Dutch government should remain committed to a minimum price on carbon emissions to help create momentum for an EU-wide price floor, writes Robert Ritz, Senior Research Associate at Cambridge Judge Business School. The article is based on the latest…
BBC: Feeling the heat
Dr Chris Hope, Reader in Policy Modelling at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses climate change on a special BBC programme. Chris says that we’ve so far seen temperatures rise on average by one degree across the world, but if we…
How will the Paris climate agreement change your day-to-day life?
Dr Chris Hope, Reader in Policy Modelling at Cambridge Judge considers some of the less obvious ways the Paris climate agreement could change your life, including extra pay in your bank account, lower payroll taxes and lower costs of eating…
Taxing dirty energy
A former Westminster adviser on the economics of climate change says the government needs to make it of interest for people and businesses to go green by ensuring these sources of energy are the cheaper ones Incentivise clean energy production and impose…
Shale we or shan’t we?
'Fracking' to extract shale gas can resume say UK government experts but Dr Pierre Noël warns that Europe's overall approach to this form of gas energy needs urgent revision As exploration of shale gas reserves resumes in Lancashire in the…
Shale we or shan’t we?
'Fracking' to extract shale gas can resume say UK government experts but Dr Pierre Noël warns that Europe's overall approach to this form of gas energy needs urgent revision As exploration of shale gas reserves resumes in Lancashire in the…
Climate change tax: killing two birds with one stone
Tough cut-backs in public spending could be mitigated by a new Climate Change Tax In a podcast for Cambridge Judge Business School Dr Chris Hope, Reader in Policy Modelling at Cambridge Judge Business School, argues that a Climate Change Tax of 75…
Clearing the energy slums
Policy makers cannot walk and chew gum. Crises are handled one by one with the most immediate driving all the rest off the agenda. However, Nick Butler, Chairman of the Centre for Energy Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, argues…
