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A report about why one should, and how one could, put a tax on plastic. Commisioned by Zero Waste Europe and written for an EU policy audience. This report turned out to be a big hit in Germany. I was shipped over to the Reichstag to present it to German MPs. In German. Which I don’t really speak. Which was …
The UK claims it doesn’t have any. It’s wrong, and anyway that’s not really the point. Original piece is in Business Green (paywall, free trial). https://www.businessgreen.com/opinion/2460331/the-looking-glass-world-of-fossil-fuel-subsidies Or you can read it here (NEF) So call things subsidy, or call them support; call them Susan if you like. If we’re making the economics of fossil fuels better today than they were yesterday, we’re …
In 2015 the Government properly went for the solar industry, on purpose. I wrote for Huffington Post about why this was dunderheaded. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-powell/solar-cuts-eight-most-stupid-things_b_8054048.html A Martian would say: that’s a shame, eh. Can’t you give that a little bit more money, rather than chopping off its legs just as it’s getting going? To which Mr Osborne would say, go away, Martian: I’ve …
I led a campaign for a couple of years to get the Treasury taking sustainability seriously, and one of its big results was getting the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee to run an inquiry into it. Here’s the evidence I submitted. (on Parliament website) The Treasury’s overriding prioritisation of economic growth at the expense of environmental and social goals is a …