In his first public lecture since December’s Copenhagen Summit, Lord Stern, author of the Stern review and Professor of Economics and Government at LSE, described his visit to Copenhagen as “chaotic, wearing, tiring and disappointing.”
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Welcome to the Epoch Hothouse blog. What drives the agency is our curiosity about the future. Our Epoch Hothouse initiative is what drives our thinking, our approach and our ideas. It consists of events, research and an expert panel that allows us to question and challenge conventional thinking.
The Oil Crunch: stimulating debate on peak oil
Posted by Chris on Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:12am
It has been a big week in the work we have been doing to support the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security. On Wednesday, at the Royal Society, the Taskforce launched their second report - ‘The Oil Crunch – a wake-up call for the UK economy’.
Can politicians walk the Copenhagen tightrope?
Posted by Chris on Mon Dec 07, 2009 18:51pm
With the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change opening today, there was a stark warning from the Danish Climate Minister, Connie Hedegaard, that the political will ‘will never be stronger’.
I think this is a correct analysis.
With the prospects of a global economy growing much slower than we’ve been used to and with increased public questioning of the science behind climate change it is vital that governments maximise the opportunities presented at Copenhagen. If they don’t, it may well be too late – not just for the planet but politically.
Future-gazing in Soho: a 20 year view
Posted by Chris on Wed Nov 18, 2009 0:23am
This week we held a future-gazing session in Soho. In addition to our Hothouse expert panel, we welcomed Gary Duncan, economics editor at The Times, as a guest contributor.
It was a broad ranging session. In four short hours, we debated the future of democracy, energy innovation, macroeconomics, global communities and the fusion of nanotech, biotech and artificial intelligence.
Nuclear power: what’s the alternative?
Posted by Helen on Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:01am
A couple of weeks ago the second seminar in the 2008 Hothouse series, hosted by spiked, took place at RIBA. The subject discussed was ‘Nuclear Power: What’s The Alternative?’