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Month: February 2019

Bubbles, Manias and Market Failures: the Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Responses

“I’m producing this much carbon now, but I’m betting that in 20 years, there’s going to be some technologies that takes that carbon out,” then how should we regulate those products, because that’s enticing to people. There’s a moral hazard there

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  • The impact decades-long dependence on hydropower in El Nino impact-prone Zambia is having on carbon emissions through diesel backup generation
  • Churchill the racist – understanding why his plinth was defaced
  • Explaining Rwanda’s prioritisation of rural electrification over rural clean drinking water through institutional path dependency
  • How to stop deforestation
  • Increasing tariffs to prevent another electricity crisis in Zambia
  • Interview with BBC Stories on being Muslim and political
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  • What have the Lib Dems ever done for Britain?
  • The Continuing Story of Brexit
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  • BBC: Imad Ahmed on getting domestic buy-in to preserve rainforests
  • On Zambia’s main news channel
  • How British liberals should advocate for the human rights of the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir (800 words)
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  • The cost of power outages to Zambia’s manufacturing sector
  • The case for changing our laws on revoking citizenship
  • Arms sales could cost the UK more than they earn
  • Why we should legalise cannabis
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  • Powering the Zambian economy

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