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alexlockwood.net (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The beginning of this week saw the press respond (or not) to Lord Adair Turner’s new report on reducing our UK carbon emissions as part of his role as chair of the government’s Committee on Climate Change. Taking a snapshot (or synchronic, to use the technical term) analysis of the coverage of the report [...] Related posts: Selective nominating: Daily Mail the greenest of all? The Press Gazette Environmental...
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Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
From The Metro : Adair Turner, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, has predicted sharp rises in energy prices as he called for cuts of at least 34 per cent in Britain's carbon emissions by 2020. He said these higher electricity and gas prices could push another 1.7 million households into fuel poverty by 2022...But it added that 400,000 households could be lifted out of fuel poverty by energy...
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Uk Business Energy News Blog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Tough UK climate change targets will push a further 1.7 million households into fuel poverty, the Government’s own global warming advisor has admitted. Adair Turner, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, has predicted sharp rises in energy prices as he called for cuts of at least 34 per cent in Britain’s carbon emissions by [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Well, they asked for it – and now they've got it. In 2007 the Government decided to go with the bright idea of a legally-binding programme for reducing its greenhouse gases step by step, and a powerful independent committee to oversee the process. Yesterday the committee, chaired by Adair Turner, came up with its recommendations, and it may have caused a few gulps in Whitehall. The targets it proposed...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Adair Turner's report is welcome and important. But its global emissions target allows for some worrying temperature increases
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Tax Research UK (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
From the Guardian yesterday: As convener of the group that coined the term Green New Deal, I would like to contest Adair Turner’s view that we should not overstate its job generating potential (Climate change watchdog backs expansion of Heathrow, November 27). The numbers depend on the amount of investment put into turning Britain into a [...]
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Adair Turner, government adviser on climate change, rejects suggestions that he is endorsing a third Heathrow runway amid growing Tory opposition to the scheme
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Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Regulators who oversaw the banking system before the recent financial crisis will be paid bonuses this year even though their boss admitted the watchdog had failed to foresee the risks ahead. Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, said: “At the level of the whole world there was a failure to see enormous risks [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
Worried about losing your job in banking? No matter. There are lots of them to be had in financial regulation. So says Adair Turner, the new chairman at the Financial Services Authority. One of the problems with the FSA, he says in declaring an end to "light touch" regulation, is that there are too few regulators and because they are not paid competitively, the best ones are easily poached by the...
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BBC | Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
Hellzappopin' at the FSA , although it's all being done with the usual British decorum. Only three weeks ago, when Bradford & Bingley went bust the FSA was roundly refusing to revisit its past actions over B&B, HBOS etc. Now, in a frank interview , its new chairman Adair Turner has promised tougher regulation on the banks. Here's the key passage: "If a year and a half ago, the FSA had wanted higher...
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Banking Times: Daily Banking News (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
The chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Lord Adair Turner, has warned the UK’s banks that supervision will, in future, be hard-line. It will also be more expensive and Lord Turner expects the financial sector, rather than the taxpayer, to bear the burden of this. Speaking to The Guardian, Lord Turner said the new regime will [...]
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Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
The City watchdog Lord Adair Turner has warned the days of light-touch regulation in the City are over.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The new chairman of the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority has said regulators should "wipe the slate clean" as they reexamine the minimum capital banks must hold, according to a Financial Times report. Adair Turner said in an interview that regulators would also have to review mark-to-market accounting, bonus structures and the way firms transfer risk, the newspaper reported....
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
Lord Adair Turner, the recently installed chairman of the Financial Services Authority, has warned that Britain’s banks face a hard-line regime of regulation going forward.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
Lord Adair Turner the new chairman of the Financial Services Authority has warned that the days of softtouch regulation are over and said that a far more rigorous regime will be imposed under his watch.
