92 months and counting
Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change programme. With motifs of climate-friendly transport woven into the fabric of the building, the Tricycle Cinema in north London...
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Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change programme. One day renewable energy looks like a sunrise industry, the next, tumbleweeds are blowing around a setting solar panel....
View ArticleBudget reaction: more beige than green
Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change programme. This was touted as the ‘green budget’, but the commitments on energy efficiency and low-carbon industry are obscured by...
View ArticleNo green shoots on climate change
Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change programme. Faced with worsening projections for global warming and energy security, learning that the wind turbine maker Vestas...
View ArticleResponse to the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
Dr Victoria Johnson is a researcher on the climate and energy team at nef. The Secretary of State for Climate Change and Energy’s plans for the transition to a low carbon future for the UK are welcome,...
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Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change programme. Picture the scene. It’s the beginning of the second world war. Germany’s industrial war machine is in full production...
View ArticleWorried about climate change and peak oil? The answer’s in a lemon
Dr Victoria Johnson is lead researcher on the climate and energy team at nef. Today, new zero-carbon energy company Lemonadability launches the first electricity tariff, fuelled entirely by lemons. CEO...
View ArticleNot enough space for carbon in the ground?
The capture and the long-term storage of CO2 is now central to plans for reducing CO2 emissions from large-scale fossil fuel uses. But new and controversial research argues the storage potential of CO2...
View ArticleTech-no-fix: why technical fixes won’t mitigate climate change
Are we too optimistic about the promise of a magic bullet to solve climate change? Two mechanical engineers argue we are - and the only way to fix climate change is think about an alternative economic...
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