In recent weeks, my blog has highlighted the importance of infrastructure in finding a path for growth for the UK economy. Alongside manufacturing and transport, another area bubbling under the surface is the quest for a low carbon economy and energy security (see my last blog of December 2010 on ...
The financial crisis engulfing Europe has called for an immediate response by policy-makers who are acting in the dark, unsure of what might happen next. The interconnected nature of the challenge we face has been highlighted by the UK's willingness to offer a loan to Ireland, even though we are ...
One of the principal bases for this weekly blog is to look at long-term trends. Most of my information, for want of any other source material, comes from the NIC Global Trends 2025 report. With the current focus on energy security, I looked up what the document says about a ...
Last week's blog covered the Daily Telegraph's series 'Rebuilding Britain' and regretted that no one was listening to the call for better long-term planning (more of this in future blogs). For now I will continue looking at some of the themes that the series might have dealt with had they ...
Given recent attention in the British press on climate change and energy security, I thought I would return to this theme which I already mentioned in my blog of 26 June. The scene setter for this is the report released last week by Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, which shows ...
Green Week 2009, being held this week in Brussels, is focused on climate change. A vital issue linked to this subject is the question of energy security which deserves more attention than it gets.
Long term trends analyses show that rising energy demand in China, India and elsewhere is creating a ...
