Citizens' Climate Lobby UK

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Decarbonisation

The IMF says that the world needs to mitigate climate change now using a form of Climate Income, the cost of procrastination will only get higher…

A Guardian report on the 5th October examines the predictions of a chapter in the current IMF half yearly World Economic Outlook report. It  has a chapter titled Near-Term Macroeconomic Impact of Decarbonization Policies. The chapter models the cost of delaying the tackling of climate change until ‘conditions are right’ and current global inflation has …

Read moreThe IMF says that the world needs to mitigate climate change now using a form of Climate Income, the cost of procrastination will only get higher…

Oxford University report argues that switching to renewable energy would be as good for the pocket as the planet.

The report titled Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition derives from a collaboration between the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, the Oxford Martin Programme on the Post-Carbon Transition, the Smith School of Enterprise & Environment at the University of Oxford, and SoDa Labs at Monash University. Professor Doyne …

Read moreOxford University report argues that switching to renewable energy would be as good for the pocket as the planet.

Growing interest in the merits of carbon pricing in general and Climate Income in particular as the old arguments against it are losing ground….

It seems appropriate to be writing about a blog by an Oxfam researcher on this Jubilee weekend as the biblical purpose of Jubilee years was to release the indebted and restore their land to them. Climate change is a symptom of global economic and social injustice. In the debate about solutions carbon pricing is often …

Read moreGrowing interest in the merits of carbon pricing in general and Climate Income in particular as the old arguments against it are losing ground….