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What do you need to know to run a nuclear power plant?

Photo credit  Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence By Siegfried Evens, Visiting Fellow, SPRU and SEG Governments around the world revisit nuclear energy as part of the race to net zero. But an important question often remains overlooked: how do we train

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Climate action is undervalued. How can we fix that?

Credit CC By 2.0 Dr Josh Lait, Prof Tim Foxon,  Dr Andrew Sudmant, and Mr Ruaidhri Higgins-Lavery.  This has previously been published on the EDRC site: https://www.edrc.ac.uk/news-blog/climate-action-is-undervalued-how-can-we-fix-that/ A backlash against the United Kingdom’s net-zero commitments is growing. It tends to

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The political sustainability of climate policy revisited

In 2013 I published an article called “The political sustainability of climate policy: The case of the UK Climate Change Act.” I concluded  that the political future of the Act was uncertain. For many years that seemed unduly pessimistic, and

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Transparency and power in energy policy making

Last week, the Prime Minister confirmed funding for two carbon capture projects in Merseyside and Teesside, and he and the Chancellor made a headline commitment to £21.7 billion of support for carbon capture and storage (CCS) over the next 25 years. This

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Sunak is right to call for an honest conversation, but his announcement yesterday was neither honest, nor a conversation

Why Rishi Sunak made yesterday’s announcement about delaying the ban on new petrol and diesel cars and weakening the gas boiler phase out is fairly obvious – an attempt to drive a wedge between the Conservatives and Labour. This strategy is also fairly

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