ESRI Seminar: The Carbon Crunch - Why Has So Little Been Achieved So Far?”

Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2

Speaker: Professor Dieter Helm CBE (Professor of energy policy, University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford).

The topics Prof Helm will discuss include:

• The Kyoto approach and EU energy policy
• The potential contribution of gas
• Future renewables versus current renewable

DIETER HELM CBE is professor of energy policy, University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Committee to the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and Chair of the Natural Capital Committee.

Yale University Press have just published a new book by Dieter Helm entitled: "The Carbon Crunch: How we're getting climate change wrong and how to fix it".