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Posts tagged "low carbon economy"

Jan 23, 2025

I must admit I've got a bit obsessive recently about the market disruption required for the low carbon transition. It's a simple, but oft ignored,...

Nov 28, 2024

For the last two days I've been at the Net Zero North East England Summit, our regional annual get together. It was great to talk...

Oct 30, 2024

Today, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves stood up in the House of Commons and delivered her first ever budget. Much has been made...

Jun 3, 2024

This photo shows my street in 1910, about 15 years after our house (right) was built. The horse and cart waiting at the bottom of...

Apr 11, 2024

I've long been fascinated by Charles Darwin. I think it started when I studied in the same place as him, Christ's College Cambridge, treading the...

Jan 23, 2023

And so the Britishvolt EV battery startup has died a big messy public death, as I predicted. Not because of any particular skill on my...

Nov 14, 2022

As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we're talking billions rather than millions. A...

Aug 30, 2021

A few days ago, I had a meeting with Robert Campbell, one of the founders of ZMove, a green delivery company, ZMove uses e-cargo bikes...

Aug 10, 2021

As we head towards the delayed COP26 climate change conference in November, the press seems to be leading on many slightly tangential issues - the...

Aug 4, 2021

When appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 2013, Mark Carney was described as the Rock Star of Bankers. Well, in Value(s), Carney has...