The European Parliament's vote against back-loading of carbon allowances under the EU emissions trading system (ETS) shows that strong domestic action will be more important than ever now to support the growth of Europe's low-carbon industry and the international climate talks, says Nick Molho

The European Parliament's...

This has been quite a month in the world of climate and energy policy. Just in the last month, we have seen major institutions such as the International Energy Agency, the United Nations and the World Bank all warning that without urgent and significant shifts in investments towards energy efficiency...

To understand the current debate on energy in the UK, which is approaching fever pitch ahead of the publication of the Energy Bill later this month, heralding the biggest market reform of the energy sector for a generation, it's worth casting your mind back to 2008.

Almost exactly four...

Over the past 18 months, renewable energy has often been the subject of regular attacks in the media, on often shaky grounds, arguing that renewables are and will always be too expensive, they don't work and people don't like renewable energy anyway. However, these attacks are at odds with what's...

Media coverage of renewable energy here in the UK is getting very depressing.

We regularly hear calls for the EU's 2020 renewable energy target - which requires the EU to consume 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020 (the figure is 15% in the case of the...