New research by IEA Director of Public Policy and Communications Matthew Lesh has been featured in The Daily Express. The … Continue reading “Red Tape Powering Cost-of-Living Surge”

Since 2000, sectors with heavy state intervention have experienced large price rises while competitive markets have experienced price falls. Average … Continue reading “Red tape has fuelled the cost of living crisis, argues new IEA paper”

IEA Energy Analyst Andy Mayer has been quoted in The Sunday Express discussing news that motorists across the country are … Continue reading “ULEZ replicas hammering motorists across the country”

IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon has written for Reaction discussing his new briefing paper highlighting government subsidies for … Continue reading “Subsidies for high-carbon biomass sell Net Zero short”

Trees for burning, a new briefing paper by IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon on the government’s extensive subsidies … Continue reading “Government decision on high-carbon energy subsidies imminent”

The electricity generator Drax is not an easy company to love. It doesn’t help that it shares a name with a James Bond … Continue reading “Biomass subsidies: how an environmental accounting trick benefits vested interests and the government”

Earlier this week, the Guardian published a write-up of a report titled ‘Third of UK teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, … Continue reading “Is climate change denial really on the rise?”

IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon’s new paper Trees for burning, which highlights extensive government subsidies for carbon-intensive woody … Continue reading “Government subsidies undermine Net Zero”

Contents Introduction Since 2005, four British power plants have been converted from coal to biomass as part of the transition … Continue reading “Trees for burning: the biomass controversy”