Tag Archives: Environment

Could this be an exciting era for solar energy?

Tomorrow, the Department of Energy and Climate Change is in the Court of Appeal regarding the recent changes to the Feed in Tariff. This has been the most challenging few weeks to date in the life of the nascent UK … Continue reading

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Do policy u-turns highlight a government’s weakness or strength?

On Friday the Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman announced that plans to sell off half of the country’s estimated two hundred and fifty-eight thousand hectares of forests were to be abandoned. The controversial plans were still in consultation but in the … Continue reading

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A Relentless Focus On Export Led Growth Is Needed

Deficit reduction alone is not going to bring about economic prosperity.  The Big Society concept will not on its own deliver wealth.  A relentless pursuit of growth, and particularly export-led growth is necessary to ensure long term prosperity. Ultimately, the … Continue reading

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Tim Yeo: Green gold, and why we need to raise our game on climate change

David Cameron put climate change at the heart of his campaign to transform and modernise the Conservative Party. I don’t doubt his personal commitment or that of many other Ministers and MPs. However the same cannot be said for the … Continue reading

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Why Incentivisation Is Much More Effective Than Compulsion

At the risk of turning this into a site with a slightly peculiar focus on bin emptying policies, I have to take the equal risk of disagreeing with my Platform 10 comrade Fiona Melville, who wrote on the subject last … Continue reading

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