Category Archive: Economics

Nepal: The Mountains between Megapowers

Nepal: The Mountains between Megapowers

On February 13th 1996 I was happily celebrating my 12th birthday with candles and cake. Half a world away in the mountainous kingdom of Nepal, …

 

Fortune’s Global 500

Fortune’s Global 500

I picked up a copy of Fortune magazine for the first time in my life the other day, enticed by the  enormous ‘GLOBAL 500‘ written …

 

Vestas 2008 Annual Financial Report

Vestas 2008 Annual Financial Report

Vestas today released their full financial report for 2008, the big news was of course the release of figures for Q4 which saw revenues increase  …

 

UK Environmental Audit Committee: Climate Change - Part One

UK Environmental Audit Committee: Climate Change - Part One

I spotted that the BBC has coverage (on iPlayer here) from the Select Committee Rooms one-off session where members of the Environmental Audit Committee heard …

 

Energy Security: an international outlook

Energy Security: an international outlook

 

Masdar and Obama: wind farm funding

Masdar and Obama: wind farm funding

Some bad news for the wind power industry in the last few days, and perhaps a bleaker outlook for 2009 than rallying stock prices in …