IEA Featured Energy and Environment

As Philip Hammond highlights the economic impact of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, Mark Littlewood, the IEA's Director-General, spoke to BBC Radio 4's Today programme about the trade offs which need to be made when protecting the environment. Mark argues that the costs will be "colossal" and that we need accept that, in tackling ... Continue reading

Privatisation of energy markets is a great success story, says Professor Philip Booth, Senior Academic Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, writing in The Telegraph. Philip argues that although support for nationalisation has become widespread, Britain actually has "an efficient industry and a vibrant market" which providers opportunities for customers to switch to cheaper ... Continue reading

Emma Revell, Communications Manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs has written in City AM on whether the government is right to ban plastic straws. In the article Emma argues that the government should resist the urge to ban things – a slippery slope that will only end with more things being unnecessarily banned – ... Continue reading

Kate Andrews, IEA Associate Director, writes her weekly City AM column on Labour's disasterous plans to re-nationalise the energy grid, noting that people other countries are fighting to allow the market into their systems in order to avoid the blackouts that have come from state-run networks. Kate argues that whatever Labour may tell you, we ... Continue reading

The only way to protect the planet is to encourage free enterprise, writes Kate Andrews, Associate Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, in a piece for City AM. The radical demands of climate protesters give little regard to how their policies would affect the lives of people living under them, while also ignoring the ... Continue reading