David Buchan
Senior Research Fellow

David Buchan has been with the Institute since 2007. He was educated in Oxford and Geneva. He started his writing career in 1970 with The Economist and in 1975 joined the Financial Times where he remained until 2006. He was based in Brussels, Washington DC and Paris and covered energy, defence, the Soviet bloc and diplomacy. At the Institute he has specialised in European Union energy and climate policy, publishing a book Energy and Climate Change: Europe at the Crossroads, in 2009, and a paper on Eastern Europe's energy and climate challenges in 2010. He is currently engaged in research on California's energy and climate policies, a study of single state action within a federation and its relevance to the EU. He wrote From Liberalisation to Intervention: Europe, the UK and the Changing Agenda in Ian Rutledge and Philip Wright (eds.),UK Energy Policy and the End of Market Fundamentalism, Oxford University Press, 2011. He also wrote the energy chapter in Policy-making in the European Union, published by OUP in 2010, and the Rough Guide to the Energy Crisis published by Penguin in 2010.


Energy and Climate Change: Europe at the Crossroads - Reviews:

FT Review,

EU Russia Centre,

IISS

Chatham House.


Publications

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Peering into the future fog of CO2 – how road maps can help

Published: 20th December 2011 | By:

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Categories / Energy and the Environment, Energy Comments, Energy Policy, Renewable

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Expanding the European dimension in energy policy: the Commission’s latest initiatives

Published: 28th October 2011 | By:

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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy and the Environment, Energy Policy, Finance, Gas, Renewable, Working Papers

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Applying belt and braces to EU energy policy

Published: 11th July 2011 | By:

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Eastern Europe’s energy challenge: meeting its EU climate commitments

Published: 2nd December 2010 | By:

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California’s Climate Policy – a Model?

Published: 1st December 2010 | By:

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California climate policy survives Republican tsunami

Published: 1st November 2010 | By:

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Europe’s complex climate compromise

Published: 1st December 2008 | By:

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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy and the Environment, Energy Policy

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Politicians and prices – the itch to intervene

Published: 1st July 2008 | By:

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Categories / Energy Policy

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Europe, Emissions and Echternach – assessing Brussels’ January 2008 package

Published: 1st January 2008 | By:

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Crusading against vertical integration

Published: 1st September 2007 | By:

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Categories / Electricity & Nuclear, Energy Policy, Gas

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