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A closer look at the UK government’s big climate and energy reshuffle

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reshuffled his cabinet and split the business energy and industrial strategy department in two. What does all this mean? Is it window dressing and intra-government manoeuvring or a necessary reset? Marc Hudson investigates.

Posted in All Posts, Energy Governance and Policy, Politics of energy and energy institutions

Making government deliver or rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic? Climate policy and the new government departments

By Matthew Lockwood What does today’s restructuring of government departments mean for climate policy? Badged as being about making government deliver, the Prime Minster announced a relatively major reorganisation, with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) being

Posted in All Posts, Energy Governance and Policy, Politics of energy and energy institutions

How carbon capture and storage was brought back from the dead, and what happens next

By Marc Hudson Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is often promoted as a technology that will square circles.  One of those circles, in the United Kingdom, is the political need to “level up” the industrial left-behind areas of the north

Posted in All Posts, Energy Governance and Policy, Energy infrastructure, Energy systems and supply technology, Fossil fuels, Politics of energy and energy institutions

The Dynamics of Global Public Research Funding on Climate Change, Energy, Transport, and Industrial Decarbonisation

By Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chux Daniels and Abdulrafiu Abbas This blog was first published on 15 December 2022 on the  Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) blog. The original can be found here. Thirty years of climate research funding have overlooked the potential of experimental

Posted in All Posts, Energy infrastructure, Energy Innovation and Digitalisation, Energy systems and supply technology

Electrified, automated and shared mobility in Africa: Lessons from Johannesburg, Kigali, Lagos and Nairobi

By Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chux Daniels and Abdulrafiu Abbas A version of this blog first appeared on the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) blog. It can be found here. In a newly published article, we focus on three innovations that are particularly important

Posted in All Posts, Energy infrastructure, Energy Innovation and Digitalisation, Energy systems and supply technology

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