Nicholas Stern

Tax dirty energy, give us the money: Suzlon chief

Those producing energy by using 'dirty' coal and 'dirty' diesel should be taxed for it and the money given to those generating and using clean energy, says the head of India's largest wind power equipment manufacturer Suzlon.

Green and nuclear is India's energy future

New Delhi, Nov. 17 (ANI): Green and nuclear is the only way forward for India's energy requirements in the years to come. This was the unanimous conclusion of the panelists at a session titled "Fuelling India's Future: Will it...

Global Warming Conference

Updating the Science of Global Warming: A Q&A with Marine Biologist Katherine Richardson An international climate change congress aims to gather the world's top scientists to update the book on global warming By David Biello,...

Give the rainforests our word and bond

By Nicholas Stern. Lord Stern of Brentford serves on the steering group of the Prince’s Rainforests Project www.princesrainforestsproject.org (THE TIMES, 14/11/08): Faced with a global credit crunch, the governments of the...

IEA stokes doubts over world's climate fight

LONDON (Reuters) - The world will have to bet on extreme measures to avoid serious global warming, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, adding to growing worries that governments have under-estimated the problem.

Climate change measures could 'stimulate economies'

Lord Nicholas Stern, the British economist who helped galvanise views on climate change, has derided as 'muddled thinking' claims that the financial crisis would make it too costly for Europe to adopt ambitious plans to fight...

RPT-FEATURE-Crunch predictors proffer radical cures

By Barbara Lewis LONDON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Five years on, the crisis is here and the question is whether prophetic minds like those in Britain's New Economic Foundation (NEF) can persuade a hitherto deaf political mainstream...

Existing climate actions 'not good enough', EU warned

Global warming is driving major environmental changes more quickly than expected, with the Earth's average temperature racing towards dangerous levels and the transition to a low-carbon economy stalling, leading climate experts...

Fabio Capello joins World Cup bid

England manager Fabio Capello has decided to join the World Cup bid to bring the 2018 Soccer World Cup to England. Capello is one of six additional Vice Presidents that have joined the seven-man Executive Board. Amongst those...

Sir David King: 'The U.K.'s goal: reduce emissions 80% by 2050'

Sir David King, ScD, FRS, directs the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford. He is president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and co-author of The Hot Topic: What We Can...

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