After eight extensive posts about the Ontario electricity sector, I am expanding my geographic coverage to look at the electricity sectors in selected OECD countries. My focus will be on the historical and relative performance of each country’s sector with respect to decarbonization and prices. As in the case of Ontario, whole volumes could and have been written about each [...]
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Stigma is an awful burden for business. But what if – for some companies – stigma is an asset? That’s what I and an international team of researchers set out to investigate in a new paper published in the Journal of Management Studies. We examined how consumers around the world responded to firms in stigmatised industries Continue reading »
Growing crops to make plastic may theoretically reduce reliance on fossil fuels, but at an enormous environmental cost.
Thomas Perrett reports on the new methods used by big energy associations to influence the media and those in power
Law professor Mary Wood breaks describes how the public trust can protect rights to clean air, water, and land.
“This is quite shocking,” declared South Australia’s Attorney-General and Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Kyam Maher. “These caves are some of the earliest evidence of Aboriginal occupation of that part of the country.” That evidence was subtracted this month by acts of vandalism inflicted on artwork in Koonalda Cave on the Nullarbor Plain, claimed to be the world’s largest Continue reading »
by Gary Gardner
The recent news that scientists moved a step closer to fusion energy was greeted with enthusiasm and awe in much of the media, a bright spot of cheer amid the ongoing drumbeat of existential global threats. Only the most cynical of curmudgeons could pooh-pooh this hopeful development—right?
After all, energy is the foundation of human development. Civilizational advance is a tale of ongoing successes in shaping energy for human ends.
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Big energy companies are piling money into increasingly inefficient oil and gas investments, reports Thomas Perrett
Looking at the oft superficially discussed population and consumption levers in the climate change debate.
Stuart Spray reports on the inspiring work being done to restore the UK's seas and coastlines and the bad news threatening to undermine this