Sir Nicholas Stern gave a lecture in Oxford tonight about the government’s economics and climate change review. The review started last summer/autumn and he billed the talk as a chance to hear some of the early thoughts from the inquiry as it begins to frame its investigation.
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I got back from India last night and spent most of today in a jet-lagged stupor. However I did update the site with some pictures from our Christmas trip to California and this week’s final medicinal plants jaunt to India and Nepal. Which was very interesting by the way, given all the recent trouble in Nepal.
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In my recent interviews on the PV industry in the UK, it became clear that the “government” could refer to any number of departments. For industry though, government is widely taken to be unified actor capable of taking almost any action once the appropriate decision is made. Respondents therefore concluded that poor progress on microgeneration can be blamed largely on a lack of committment in Whitehall.
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The Office of the Deputy Prime Mininster recently published its final report on low or zero carbon energy sources and controversially concludes that no LZC technologies are cost-effective and hence they should not be considered for mandatory inclusion in part L of the building regulations.
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I just finished reading Kate Fox’s Watching the English. She’s an anthropologist and unlike those who go to far away lands and study exotic cultures, she focuses on life here in England. Although this means there are no headhunters or anything, the book is great, both insightful and very very funny.
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