The recent EU Commission proposal for promoting the supply of power from renewable energy sources was originally based on a pan-European, harmonised tradable green certificate (TGC) scheme. We suggest, on the basis of a multi-disciplinary analysis, that a pan-EU TGC system is not the way forward...

This paper seeks to analyse ecological modernisation using a focus on how bureaucracy contributes to constituting ecological modernities in the case of organic food trade in the UK and India. Ecological modernisation is a way for business to apply ecological technologies to satisfy the demands...

There has been discussion about the extent to which combined heat and power (CHP) plants with thermal stores are suitable for sustainable energy production. At the moment, in the UK the development of this type of plant is limited. This paper analyses the economics and optimum size of CHP...