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The recent U.S. energy revolution, courtesy of high-tech advancements in hydraulic fracturing, has made U.S. manufacturing more competitive globally, lowering costs for energy-intensive industries while increa... Read more...
03 March 2017
It has lowered costs for energy-intensive industries, boosting output, employment and exports, write Rabah Arezki, Thiemo Fetzer and Frank Pisch … Our results suggest that the cost advantage due to t... Read more...
16 December 2016
Investors who strongly favour green energy make less thorough location searches, writes Yatang Lin Wind power is becoming an increasingly important part of the US energy mix, taking up more than four per cent of the tot... Read more...
19 April 2016
Scholars who have read the paper say it makes a valuable contribution to the field. The model ''is stylized but rich enough, I think, to capture some of the main features of the sector,'' explains John Van Reenan, an eco... Read more...
15 March 2016
David Attenborough, Brian Cox, Paul Polman, Jeffrey Sachs and Arunabha Ghosh all sign letter calling for action by UN climate conference in December The international group of experts and CEOs back a new 'Global Apollo ... Read more...
16 September 2015
Article by Bill Gates Last month, during a trip to Europe, I mentioned that I plan to invest $1 billion in clean energy technology over the next five years. This will be a fairly big increase over the investments I am a... Read more...
03 August 2015
Article by Richard Layard Leading thinkers across the worlds of science, public service and academia have launched a new global programme to combat climate change. Richard Layard outlines their proposal for big public i... Read more...
This autumn sees the launch of the Global Apollo Programme: a green research initiative that wants governments to match, in today's money, the sums spent putting men on the moon. At a time of increasing austerity, reques... Read more...
Bill Gates (co-founder of Microsoft) interviewed: ... Tens of billions of dollars should therefore be spent by governments on research and development in renewables over coming years, three times current levels, to iden... Read more...
25 June 2015
A report entitled A Global Apollo Programme to Combat Climate Change, written by a number of high-profile British scientists and economists, offers a bold answer. It argues that carbon-free energy has to become competiti... Read more...
23 June 2015
Article by Richard Layard, Gus O'Donnell, Nicholas Stern, Adair Turner If clean energy were cheaper than dirty energy, climate change would halt. Making clean energy cheaper is a problem - like putting a man - on the... Read more...
08 June 2015
India will be a member of a consortium of countries that will implement the Global Apollo Programme - a plan to find ways within the next 10 years of making green energy clean cheaper to produce than energy drawn from c... Read more...
03 June 2015
In the deepest chill of the Cold War, then-president of the United States John F. Kennedy announced to the country, and the world, that ''we choose to go to the moon.'' The Apollo Programme placed a man on the moon withi... Read more...
''The challenge is as big as putting a man on the moon,'' says Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, one of the founders of the programme along with other prominent scientists, economists and industrialists. ... Read more...
A number of Britain's leading experts in the field of climate research are focused on achieving the goal of solving the world's most pressing problem: the continued global temperature rise. This article was published on... Read more...
02 June 2015
Lord Richard Layard, an economist at the London School of Economics and member of the Apollo group, said it was barely believable that the world only spent 2% of its R&D money on its ''most pressing problem'' of clim... Read more...
Interview with Lord Layard regarding launch of the 'Apollo' programme to make renewables cheaper than fossil fuels. The interview was broadcast by the BBC World Service News on June 2, 2015 [No link available.] Relate... Read more...
Article by Richard Layard The target for GAP is to reduce the cost of clean energy and to do it fast. This article was published by The Huffington Post on June 2, 2015 Link to article here Related links 'Global ... Read more...
The cost of subsidising the construction of more renewable energy won't deter industry from investing in Europe, according to a new study by the London School of Economics. ''Contrary to some claims, rises in energy pr... Read more...
02 March 2015
Researchers says even a 10-fold rise in EU carbon price would lead to a less than 0.5 per cent drop in exports A large rise in energy prices would barely affect exports from European industry and the balance of trade, a... Read more...