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Declining job retention bonus was honourable and underlined £9.4bn scheme’s shockingly poor design Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, readily conceded last week that there would be a “dead weight” cost to his policy of offering firms a £1,000 bonus for every employee recalled from furlough and kept in employment until the end of next January. That

While oil and gas is not alone in struggling in the economic slump, the reality of the climate crisis is starting to bite, analysts say The global oil and gas industry has crashed. In mid-June, BP – formerly British Petroleum – slashed the value of its assets by US$17.5bn and revealed plans to cut its

Publication date: November 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 177 Author(s): Gabriel Lopez Porras, Lindsay C. Stringer, Claire H. Quinn

Sector excluded in transport emissions figures but policy change unlikely until 2023 International aviation and shipping emissions are likely to be included in the UK government’s net zero target, it has emerged – but not until after 2023. The intention to review carbon accounting emerged after ministers and advisers, including climate activists, held the first

If Boris Johnson wants to permanently shift the UK on to a trajectory to meet its climate targets, he must deliver a new zero-carbon infrastructure. There’s no sign of that yet Boris Johnson does not want a crisis to go to waste. The coronavirus-induced recession is widely accepted as an opportunity to reset and rebuild

Publication date: November 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 177 Author(s): Felix Creutzig