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• The next climate change minister must learn from Chris Huhne's successes and failures

  03 February 2012

  Following Chris Huhne's recent resignation, Policy Exchange Director Neil O'Brien examines his legacy, highlighting the hugely expensive and overly controlling government energy policies that have been followed.

• Neil O'Brien on the Today Programme

  14 December 2011

  Policy Exchange Director Neil O'Brien takes part in a debate on the Today Programme on unemployment in the UK, making the case from report Personalised Welfare for more specifically tailored job-search support for jobseekers.

• Europe's self-sacrifices are in vain if China's emissions continue to accelerate

  04 July 2011

  Neil O'Brien, Director of Policy Exchange, writes in The Financial Times pointing out findings from report Carbon Omissions that much of the EU's carbon consumption has been offshored to China and repeating the call from 2020 Hindsight for greater investment in developing new green technologies instead of subsidising immature and expensive new technologies.

• The nuclear-government complex

  01 July 2011

  Simon Less, Head of Environment & Energy at Policy Exchange, writes a letter to The Guardian making the case from recent reports 2020 Hindsight and Climate Change Policy - Time for Plan B that the EU renewable energy target is unnecessary and unnecessarily expensive which could harm European efforts to convince developing countries of the attractiveness of cutting emissions.

• Offshore turbine boom faces headwinds

  25 May 2011

  The ENDS report cites recommendations from Policy Exchange publication 2020 Hindsight that the government should attempt to downgrade or abandon its plans to meet the EU renewable energy target, or otherwise try to find much more cost-effective plans of meeting it.

• U.K. Government Battered by Criticism Over Climate Change Actions, Divided Over Future Policy

  13 May 2011

  The New York Times cites findings from Policy Exchange report 2020 Hindsight, quoting the report's author, Environment & Energy Research Fellow Simon Moore, criticising the EU 2020 renewable energy target for diverting resources away from low cost carbon reduction measures.

• Nuclear cost-effective for UK cuts

  10 May 2011

  World Nuclear News reports findings from Policy Exchange report 2020 Hindsight that meeting the EU 2020 renewable energy target is not necessary to achieve the UK's target of an 80% cut in emissions by 2050.

• CCC calls for limits on offshore wind

  09 May 2011

  ENDS report refers to the recommendation from Policy Exchange report 2020 Hindsight that plans for offshore wind generation should be significantly scaled back in favour of other, cheaper, technologies.

• UK government told to moderate offshore wind power scale

  09 May 2011

  ICIS Heren reports Policy Exchange publication 2020 Hindsight's claim that the EU 2020 renewable energy target is hugely and unnecessarily expensive.

• Energy review declares nuclear as cheapest low-carbon option

  09 May 2011

  LocalGov.co.uk reports on Policy Exchange report 2020 Hindsight, citing the publication's argument that the EU 2020 renewable energy target is unneccesarily expensive and diverting money away from R&D of potentially more useful low carbon technology.

• Abandon renewables targets, says thinktank

  05 May 2011

  ENDS covers Policy Exchange's latest report 2020 Hindsight, citing the report's recommendation that the UK should attempt to negotiate out of the EU Renewable Energy Directive as achieving the conditions set out by the directive would be hugely and unnecessarily expensive.

• Policy Exchange warns that renewable energy target is 'unnecessarily expensive' for the UK, due to emphasis on offshore wind

  05 May 2011

  Industrial Fuels and Power reports on the release of Policy Exchange report 2020 Hindsight, quoting Environment & Energy Head Simon Less and Research Fellow Simon Moore showing how the current renewables approach is not only hugely expensive, but unnecessarily so.

• UK think-tank says country must renegotiate 2020 renewable target

  05 May 2011

  Policy Exchange's latest report, 2020 Hindsight, by Simon Moore and Simon Less, is covered by Platts who quote the findings that the EU's 2020 renewable energy target is damaging prospects for achieving 2050 targets for decarbonisation.

• Renewable energy targets must be maintained, says industry

  05 May 2011

  Business Green reports on latest Policy Exchange publication 2020 Hindsight, quoting the author, Environment & Energy Research Fellow Simon Moore, arguing that nuclear power, carbon capture and storage and energy efficiency efforts would achieve greater carbon saving than current policies - and at a lower cost.

• Think-tank wants EU green energy target axed

  05 May 2011

  Utility Week quotes Policy Exchange Environment & Energy Research Fellow Simon Moore on findings from report 2020 Hindsight that the EU renewable energy target is hugely and unneccesarily expensive.

• UK 'Must Rethink Energy Targets'

  05 May 2011

  2020 Hindsight, Policy Exchange's latest report, is covered by Utility Products who quote Simon Moore, Environment & Energy Research Fellow and author of the report, noting that the drive to increase renewable power is diverting resources away from cheaper ways of cutting emissions.

• U.K. Urged to Abolish Renewable Energy Targets, Spend Less to Cut Carbon

  05 May 2011

  Bloomberg reports on Policy Exchange's latest report 2020 Hindsight, quoting Environment & Energy Research Fellow and author of the report Simon Moore arguing that the UK's commitment to meeting the EU's renewable energy target is damaging to the goal of global carbon reduction.

• Abolish £66billion EU Renewable Target, says Policy Exchange

  05 May 2011

  A new report from leading think tank Policy Exchange says Britain should renegotiate its commitment to the European Union’s 2020 renewable energy target. The study says the renewable target is unnecessarily expensive and damages the prospects for reducing carbon emissions over the coming decades by wasting money that could be better used to fund research and demonstration of a wide range of new, low carbon technologies.