Mar 22 2012
E3G Founding Director, Tom Burke, has produced a blog on Osborne’s policy on planning.
Martin Wolf is one of the world’s most trusted, authoritative and influential economic commentators. A central reason for his ascent to such a height has been the rigour of his thinking. He is, above all, the champion of public policy based on evidence rather than anecdote or prejudice.
It is
Mar 22 2012
E3G Founding Director, Tom Burke, gives his reaction to the environmental impacts of the budget. Full text below. He was also interviewed on the same topic last night on The World Tonight.
What Cameron put together Osborne is now taking apart. Detoxifying the Conservative Party while in Opposition has been the Prime Minister’s greatest political success. It got him his current job. It also
Nov 16 2011
E3G – Third Generation Environmentalism is a leading environmental policy think tank with offices across the world. As an independent not-for-profit organisation, E3G works closely with NGOs, governments and business thus providing unparalleled insight and access to the politics of climate change.
E3G offers a dynamic,
Jul 12 2011
Chris Huhne, the Energy & Climate Change Secretary, is being urged by an alliance of business, investors and NGOs to minimise energy costs by putting demand reduction at the heart of the White Paper, to be announced today.
Driving energy bills down as global prices go up is an imperative for Britain’s businesses and consumers.
This means DECC’s White Paper on Energy Market Reform must
Mar 23 2011
Months of speculation over whether the Green Investment Bank will be a proper bank or a fund was ended today when it was revealed in the Budget that the Government will set up the world’s first public green bank with total funding of £3 billion.
Transform UK, the business and civil society alliance that founded the campaign for a Green
Mar 10 2011
An influential Parliamentary Committee today concluded that the Government must set up a proper Green Investment Bank with the power to issue Green Bonds if it wants to reap the benefits of green growth and meet the UK’s climate change targets.
The findings of the investigation by the Environmental Audit Committee into the Green Investment Bank come less than two weeks before the Budget
Feb 02 2011
Monica Araya was recently asked to write a piece for the main climate blogging platform in Latin America, www.intercambioclimatico.com. Her article, in Spanish, is below. It is also available to to read here.
El 11 de diciembre pasado la comunidad internacional fue categórica en la Cumbre Climática de las
Dec 07 2010
Ministers found more promising conditions on the ground than they are used to experiencing during the final days of annual UN climate negotiations.
The first week of negotiations was marked by a clear improvement in diplomacy compared with recent climate negotiations (see quotes below). In stark contrast to Copenhagen, where the atmosphere for negotiations was poisoned by revelations of a
May 25 2010
In the Queen’s speech later today it is expected that an Energy Security and Green Economy Bill will be introduced which will include provisions to set up a Green Investment Bank.
The decision of the coalition Government to press ahead with the creation of this landmark investment institution has received strong support from a broad range of business, finance and charity stakeholders. It has
Mar 24 2010
The Government has announced in the Budget today a Green Investment Bank as a central part of its strategy to promote green growth and jobs.
Nick Mabey, Chief Executive of E3G, strongly welcomed the proposal and said:
With the creation of the world’s first dedicated Green Investment Bank, the UK is now firmly at the forefront of the global race to decarbonisation.”
The Green Investment
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