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Lord Nigel Lawson : After Copenhagen : New British Government : Old Climate Policy?

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16 Jun 2010 @ 12:45

After Copenhagen: New British Government – Old Climate Policy?

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The Right Honourable Lord Nigel Lawson addressed members of the Institute on how the failure to reach an agreement at Copenhagen will affect a transition to a low carbon economy and whether a Plan B should be adopted with respect to global warming. 

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Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson is an internationally esteemed and highly experienced authority on all aspects of economic policy.  He is currently Chairman of Oxford Investment Partners, which is majority owned by a number of leading Oxford Colleges and is the immediate past President of the British Institute of Energy Economics.  Most recently, his major interest has been the economics and politics of global warming, about which he has written a best-selling book, ‘An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming’, which has now appeared in a number of foreign language editions. 

Lord Lawson in the founder of a think tank dedicated to climate change policy called the ‘Global Warming Policy Foundation’. 

During Lord Lawson’s political career he was the key figure alongside Margaret Thatcher in shaping Britain’s fiscal and economic policies.  As Secretary of State for Energy he had responsibility for the privatisation of the energy sector until he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post he held for the greater part of the Thatcher years.  Lord Lawson’s widely acclaimed book ‘The View From No. 11 – Memoirs of a Tory Radical’ shares with the reader his political and economic views and also addresses the issues of the ERM, the single European currency, unemployment, Europe and the nature of modern democracy.

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