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Engineers surveying windfarm in the UK.

The energy strategy: missed opportunities, false solutions, better ways forward

Prof Matthew Paterson By Filed Under: British Politics, Energy and Environment Posted:

The government’s ‘British Energy Security Strategy’ released on the 7th April 2022 has raised more questions than answers for those in interested in energy policy. While it claims to offer solutions to the dual problems of rising energy prices and threats to natural gas supplies, it adopts an outdated method that runs conversely to net […]

Gilets jaunes, Extinction Rebellion and neoliberal climate policy

Prof Matthew Paterson By Filed Under: Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Europe Posted:

#SDG Two protest movements erupted in the UK and France on November 17th, with apparently opposite logics. Here, Matthew Paterson, Professor of International Politics in the School of Social Sciences, argues that both movements are a result of the way carbon pricing is been both regressive socially and woefully inadequate in climate terms. This centre […]

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