IEA Featured Energy and Environment

The Grocer has referenced IEA research on deposit return schemes (DRS). The DRS aims to encourage people to recycle by making consumers pay a small deposit when they buy a drink in a single-use container and then get the deposit back when they return the empty bottle or can. Author of the report, IEA Head ... Continue reading

IEA Policy Analyst Alexander Hammond has written an article for Human Progress suggesting that economic prosperity is not necessarily  harmful for the environment. Alex argues that although economic growth necessitates some environmental damage, once nations have achieved a certain level of prosperity, they cease to cause as much damage to the environment as they once ... Continue reading

Former PM Theresa May legally committed the UK to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in 2019 but The Sun reports that she concealed the true cost going net zero from the public. The May government claimed the commitment would cost the UK £50 billion a year, but an FOI request sent to the Treasury ... Continue reading

The IEA's Director General Mark Littlewood argued that many of the measures announced by the Prime Minister as part of his 10-point green industrial revolution  "rely on heavy-handed prohibitions – such as the ban on sales of petrol and diesel cars – rather than price incentives" Quoted by the Mail Online, Mark said that "it ... Continue reading

The government's pump-priming of the green revolution amounts to "an unsatisfactorily high £48,000 per job created", the IEA's Director General Mark Littlewood told the Telegraph. Mark argued that "tax is really the only lever they need to pull. We need to find a fair price for carbon and then allow the market to find whatever ... Continue reading