31 Oct, 2024 The Autumn Budget 2024: Will the Budget deliver growth in UK energy and infrastructure? By Michael Corbett Hywel Davies Oliver Moir Alexander Dustan Gareth Miles Kathryn Emmett Adam Merlander +4 more... Show less On 30 October 2024, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered the first Budget under a Labour government since 2010, emphasising in her...
11 Jun, 2024 The pre-election period: a sensitive time for the energy transition By Oliver Moir Kathryn Emmett Aaron Wu Shortly after Rishi Sunak’s surprise announcement that the General Election will be held on 4 July 2024, the Government and civil service...
20 Nov, 2023 Brighter prospects for UK offshore wind By Azadeh Nassiri Kathryn Emmett Adam Morland Just two months ago the absence of any offshore wind projects in the UK government’s contracts for difference (CfD) allocation round 5...
27 Sep, 2022 Net Zero Review: Is the UK Government set to 'detour' on the 'path to Net Zero'? By Dean Hickey On Monday 26th September, the UK Government officially launched its Net Zero Review. As part of the launch, it was announced that Chris...
02 Aug, 2022 Energy security: are all approaches equal? By Kathryn Emmett Will Wilson The European Commission’s REPowerEU plan (“EU Plan”), published on 18 May 2022, shares common decarbonisation and security of supply...
01 Aug, 2022 Toward a Culture of Formalism? Virtues of the ICVCM’s Core Carbon Market Principles By Aaron Wu Of the 1.5 billion carbon credits now issued from more than 5,000 projects, critics claim many do not deliver the promised climate...
19 Jul, 2022 Reforms to the Energy Charter Treaty : what you need to know By Maria Shepard Peter Wickham Samantha Holland On 24 June 2022, the 53 signatory states to the Energy Charter Treaty reached an “agreement in principle” to the Treaty’s amendment and...
05 Jul, 2022 Key talking points from the Climate Change Committee’s 2022 Progress Report By Kathryn Emmett The UK’s independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) has issued a “some progress but needs to do better” report card to the UK Government....
29 Jun, 2022 Key takeaways from the ClimateTech Summit (part of London Tech Week) By Simon Agar Harry Hecht During the hectic schedule of London Tech Week - the flagship annual tech event in the UK – we were lucky enough to attend the...
07 Jun, 2022 Net Zero: can tax help guide a unified approach? By Slaughter and May It is perhaps trite to say that tax can be used as the proverbial carrot and stick alike - or simply as a revenue raiser. It also goes...
28 Apr, 2022 Corporations and the IPCC (Part 2): Making the Future Possible By Aaron Wu Will Wilson “Pour ce qui est de l’avenir, il ne s’agit pas de le prevoir, mais de le render possible” — Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Citadelle (1948) ...
27 Apr, 2022 Corporations and the IPCC (Part 1): “Now or Never” By Aaron Wu Will Wilson In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) published a Special Report on the urgency and scale of policy changes...
05 Apr, 2022 Floating offshore wind: buoyant times ahead By Azadeh Nassiri Kathryn Emmett Jess O'Sullivan Floating offshore wind is predicted to play a critical role in long-term global decarbonisation efforts in the next decade. Globally,...
31 Mar, 2022 Not zero: UK off track to hit 2050 targets By James Brown In June 2019, Parliament passed legislation requiring the government to reduce the UK’s net emissions of greenhouse gases by 100%...
30 Mar, 2022 The Russia-Ukraine crisis: boon or bane for the clean energy transition? By Elizabeth Huang We recently published a briefing on the implications of the Russia-Ukraine crisis for energy markets. Here, we take a deeper dive into...