Coal is the most carbon-intensive fuel available for electricity generation. The most urgent threat to climate policy is the scale of new investments in unabated coal-fired electricity generation still being planned.
Some challenges remain, but the bottom line is that low-carbon options can and should play a much greater role in energy supply.
We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it.
We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.
I think there are going to be more countries joining the euro.
The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block.
I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.
Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions.
Israel is a producer of growth.
Israel has been doing very well, but there are challenges the country faces, like poverty and social integration of the Orthodox, Arab, Beduin, and Ethiopian population, which will be essential for sustaining strong growth over time.
It will be crucial the E.U. and the U.K. maintain the closest economic relationship possible.
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
It is not good to cut exports or imports.
Economic resources are not all that matter in people's lives.
The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.
More dangerous than voting for change... is that people no longer vote because they have lost trust not only in governments but in democracy.
Why did we lose Brexit? Why, because 60 per cent of youth didn't believe they needed to go and vote.
We need better measures of people's expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other people... We need to focus on stocks as much as on flows, and we need to broaden the range of assets that we consider important to sustain our well-being.
