In the immediate aftermath of the March 2011 TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, the German federal government decided to temporarily halt the operation of the country’s eight oldest energy-producing nuclear reactors. This was accompanied by a cabinet proposal to phase out...

The creation of the EU ETS led to changes in the merit order of the different plants competing on the electricity grid, and in the fuel-switching opportunities in the UK. This country has the greatest potential for CO2 emissions reduction through fuel-switching within the EU, thanks to its...

This paper uses the E-simulate model of electricity generation to estimate how much the stacking order of different technologies changes when a carbon price is introduced. Different coal and gas price scenarios are explored, and some sensitivity analysis is made of the relative market share of...

The conservation or sustainable use of biological diversity presents special challenges for policy-makers because of its complex nature and the difficulties associated with identifying the underlying causes that lead to biodiversity loss. As such, it is often necessary that a range of incentive...

Les mécanismes du marché ne pourront résoudre qu'une part du défi climatique : la taxe carbone s'avère nécessaire pour impliquer tous les émetteurs, petits et grands. Comment voyez-vous le marché global du carbone évoluer dans les années à venir ? Il va certainement bien se...