Steffen Böhm

January 19, 2022

There’s a massive bubble in the price of carbon – and yet it won’t bring down emissions any faster

Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter

Emissions trading systems are supposed to speed up decarbonisation, but they are not yet capable of doing so in practice.

September 13, 2018

What’s behind the current wave of ‘corporate activism’?

Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter; Annika Skoglund, Uppsala University, and Dan Eatherley, University of Exeter

Four reasons why the line between activism and business is blurring.

November 7, 2016

We can’t simply bet on renewable energy to stop global warming

Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter

Wind and solar farms are great. But we need to reduce energy demand and start taking carbon out of the atmosphere.

October 17, 2016

Link between climate change and armed conflict is exaggerated – new study

Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter

Droughts can be a factor in some armed conflicts, but that’s nothing new.

June 3, 2016

Greener in Europe? Four reasons the EU can’t be trusted on the environment

Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter

From trade deals to climate change or biofuels, the European Union’s green record is patchy at best.

February 5, 2016

Turkey’s academics pay heavy price for resisting Erdoğan’s militarised politics

Celal Cahit Agar, University of Exeter and Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter

Academics and Kurdish areas have been targeted – but the backlash has begun.

December 14, 2015

How emissions trading at Paris climate talks has set us up for failure

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex

The climate agreement is littered with references to a whole range of new and expanded market-based tools.

December 9, 2015

Why India’s plan to fight climate change doesn’t hold water

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex; Sanjay Lanka, University of Essex, and Zareen Pervez Bharucha, University of Essex

There’s a huge gap between what India claims it can do, and what it’s actually doing to bring down emissions.

November 30, 2015

Why the Paris climate talks are doomed to failure, like all the others

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex

The latest climate summit will avoid the real issue: capitalism demands exponential growth, driven by fossil-fuels.

November 25, 2015

Spending Review 2015: the experts respond

Vikki McCall, University of Stirling; Alan Shipman, The Open University; Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge; David Bell, University of Stirling; Gareth Downing, University of Huddersfield; Jonquil Lowe, The Open University; Karen Bloor, University of York; Michael Kitson, University of Cambridge; Nigel Driffield, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick; Roger King, University of Bath; Sharon Gander, Nottingham Trent University; Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter, and Susan Harkness, University of Bath

Chancellor George Osborne has laid out his plans for UK spending for the next five years.

November 23, 2015

What Prince Charles gets wrong – and right – about climate change and conflict in Syria

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex

Environmental factors are important, but we must not ignore history and politics.

October 12, 2015

Why some companies are becoming environmental activists

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Annika Skoglund, Uppsala University

It used to be outside actors like NGOs and governments that forced companies to be environmentally friendly. But some are building their brand on their CSR.

September 24, 2015

We keep choosing cars over clean air – that’s the real scandal

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Ian Colbeck, University of Essex

If some good can come out of the Volkswagen scandal, it’s that public will be more clued up about air pollution from cars.

August 17, 2015

Obama’s climate plan is another half‑baked carbon trading scheme

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Rebecca Pearse, University of Sydney

The unambitious Clean Power Plan is too little, very late.

July 11, 2015

What happened to the ‘greenest‑ever’ Conservative Party?

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex

Summer budget signals a return to the unsustainable ways of the past.

June 23, 2015

Even the pope gets it – carbon markets won’t fix the climate

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex; Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, and Siddhartha Dabhi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Should solving global warming be left to market forces or not? Our politicians can’t make up their minds.

June 17, 2015

Pope’s climate letter is a radical attack on the logic of the market

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex

Pope Francis’s intervention in the climate debate puts him on collision course with global elites.

May 26, 2015

Shell can’t afford to wait until 2050 to adapt its business to climate change

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex

The risks of rising carbon emissions means fossil fuel firms need new strategies now - for the sake of their businesses as well as the planet.

May 6, 2015

São Paulo water crisis shows the failure of public‑private partnerships

Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter and Rafael Kruter Flores, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Growth can be predicted and droughts can be planned for. So why did Brazil’s largest water utility get caught out?

March 18, 2015

Budget 2015: experts respond

Tony Yates, University of Bristol; David Spencer, University of Leeds; Gordon Fletcher, University of Salford; Jonquil Lowe, The Open University; Karen Rowlingson, University of Birmingham; Kate Pickett, University of York; Paul Wakeling, University of York; Prem Sikka, University of Essex; Steffen Böhm, University of Exeter, and Stephen Roper, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

George Osborne has delivered his fifth and final budget before the general election. Our academic experts respond.

February 25, 2015

Green Party should make GDP alternatives an election issue

Katharine Rockett, University of Essex and Steffen Böhm, University of Essex

Traditional economic measures suit the main parties – but not the electorate.

December 4, 2014

Even climate change experts and activists might be in denial

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Aanka Batta, University of Essex

Another month, another important UN climate change conference. The latest is in Lima, the capital of Peru. Thousands of experts from the world of politics, business, academia and civil society – and Leonardo…

October 10, 2014

Should we feel sorry for Tesco? The human cost of cheap food

Dave Watson, University of Essex; Steffen Böhm, University of Essex, and Zareen Pervez Bharucha, University of Essex

The crisis of confidence at Tesco signals a remarkable fall from grace given that it wasn’t so long ago that Britons were spending one pound in every seven in its stores. But should we feel sorry for Tesco…

September 29, 2014

Should Norway be paying Liberia to stop cutting down forests?

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Katharine Rockett, University of Essex

Despite all the treaties, pledges, export bans and labelling schemes, the world’s forests are still disappearing at an alarming rate. In poorer countries a forest may simply be worth less as a living…

July 14, 2014

The challenges ahead for Brazil now the World Cup is over

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Jules Pretty, University of Essex

The 2014 World Cup in Brazil is over. It brought much joy, and huge disappointment for the hosts – perhaps even worse than the Maracanazo in 1950. Now attention in Brazil will turn to hosting the next…