Blogposts tagged 'Iea'

(Some) CO2 emissions have peaked, and emissions regulation is working

Posted by christian - 23 September 2009 at 2:19pm - 6 Comments

With the economy stumbling, emissions are falling. Is this the moment of opportunity to take a deep breath and cut them for good?

In pretty big news, the FT have seen an early extract of an International Energy Agency report which says that due to the global recession, emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are now actually falling.

We'll have to wait for the full report for the numbers, but since the start of the economic crisis emissions have undergone "a significant decline," says the IEA.

Article tagged as: climate change, emissions, ft, IEA

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How to fix the UK's renewables strategy

Posted by bex - 3 October 2008 at 9:18am - 1 Comment

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Given that we have the best renewable resources in the European Union, the fact that Britain languishes near the bottom of the European renewables league table is pretty humiliating.

On Monday though, the International Energy Agency added insult to injury. Britain's renewables strategy, it said, is 'ineffective' and 'very expensive'. The agency's new report (published here, but you have to pay) ranks Britain 31st out of 35 countries - "including all the major industrial nations such as the US, Germany and China" - in its green energy cost league. And our 'renewables effectiveness', it says, is a paltry three per cent.

Article tagged as: climate change, consultations, IEA, policy, renewable energy