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Jan 3, 2025 | 
energytransition.org | Alex Chapman
The green technologies needed to rapidly cut our greenhouse gas emissions are already on the market. What’s more, they are, or very soon will be, cost effective. In other words, from the perspective of the household, it is, overall, cheaper to go green. However, there’s a catch: access to capital is king in the household energy transition. Alex Chapman reports.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
businessgreen.com | Alex Chapman
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
neweconomics.org | Alex Chapman
Blog The majority of the world's population uses tariffs which guarantee cheap essential energy. Time for the UK to pay attention.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
neweconomics.org | Alex Chapman
Blog Approving expansion would send the wrong message about the new approach to planning In her first speech as Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out plans for a “growth-focused approach to the planning system” which would see “red tape” cut to “get Britain building again”. Few would dispute that we need to get moving on new homes and infrastructure, but the national renewal the new government seeks will not be achieved by approving just any old development. One of the first proposals on the...
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
neweconomics.org | Alex Chapman
Blog Bills are due to rise again this winter, but we found little on offer to fix this from the main political parties.
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May 24, 2024 | 
neweconomics.org | Alex Chapman
Blog Latest data shows that in 2023, there were 3.9 million fewer business air trips compared to 2019 This week I attended an event the aviation industry hosted in parliament aimed at convincing the next UK government of the “crucial role of the sector in underpinning economic growth”. The decline of business use of air travel undermines their argument. New data released by the Office for National Statistics last week highlights the problem with the aviation industry’s claims. The data, from...
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
neweconomics.org | Alex Chapman
Blog How do we fly less without air travel becoming the preserve of the wealthy?
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
neweconomics.org | Alex Chapman
Blog Our government’s greed for ever more air travel could come back to bite them A wave of farmers’ protests has swept across Europe in recent months. Tractors blocked high streets and highways, united under the slogan of “No farmers, no food”. But it was another of their banners that caught my eye: “Flights over food”. That was the slogan held above a convoy of 60 tractors gathered outside Cork Airport last month. So what does air travel have to do with farmers? While the motivations of...
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Alex Chapman
Last week the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) released new data which highlights how little this government’s ‘windfall tax’ has actually done to rein in the profits of fossil fuel companies. Back in May 2022, the UK government announced the energy profits levy, as a response to the growing pressure for a ‘windfall tax’ on the massive profits being generated by companies pumping oil and gas in the North Sea.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
neweconomics.org | Alex Chapman
Blog Loophole in energy profits levy will hand oil and gas companies up to £18bn over next three years Last week the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) released new data which highlights how little this government’s ‘windfall tax’ has actually done to rein in the profits of fossil fuel companies. Back in May 2022, the UK government announced the energy profits levy, as a response to the growing pressure for a ‘windfall tax’ on the massive profits being generated by companies pumping oil...
