Sir Dieter Robin Helm (born 11 November 1956) is a British economist and academic.

Career

Helm is Professor of Energy Policy at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford.New College, University of Oxfor
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. Retrieved 29 November 2012.Economics Departmen
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Retrieved 29 November 2012. He was a member of the Economics Advisory Group to the British

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change was a British government cabinet position from 2008 to 2016. The Department of Energy and Climate Change was created on 3 October 2008 when then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown ...

, and Chair of the

Natural Capital Committee The Natural Capital Committee (NCC) was an independent body set up in 2012, initially for a three-year period, to report to the UK Government and advise on how to value nature and to ensure England's 'natural wealth' is managed efficiently and su ...

.DEFR
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, 21 March 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012. His research interests include energy, utilities, and the environment.Guardia
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Retrieved 29 November 2012. Helm was knighted in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to the environment, energy and utilities policy.

''The Carbon Crunch''

In his book ''The Carbon Crunch'' (2012) and in print media, Dieter Helm criticised efforts to reduce

greenhouse gas emissions Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities strengthen the greenhouse effect, contributing to climate change. Most is carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. The largest emitters include coal in China and ...

through current regulation and government intervention, and the deployment of renewable energy, particularly

wind power Wind power or wind energy is mostly the use of wind turbines to generate electricity. Wind power is a popular, sustainable, renewable energy source that has a much smaller impact on the environment than burning fossil fuels. Historically ...

. He recommended establishing a

carbon tax A carbon tax is a tax levied on the carbon emissions required to produce goods and services. Carbon taxes are intended to make visible the "hidden" social costs of carbon emissions, which are otherwise felt only in indirect ways like more sev ...

and carbon border tax, increased funding for research and development, and an increased use of gas for electricity generation to substitute coal and to act as a bridge to new technologies.

''Net Zero''

In 2021 his book ''Net Zero'' was shortlisted for the

Wainwright Prize The Wainwright Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of general outdoors, nature and UK-based travel writing. In 2020 it was split into the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing and the Wainwright Prize for writing on globa ...

in the Global Conservation Writing category''.''

Works

Books

As author *''Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change'' (September 2020), Harper Collins, . *''Green and Prosperous Land'' (March 2019), William Collins, . *''Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels'' (March 2017), Yale University Press, . *''Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet'' (May 2015), Yale University Press, . *''The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong – and How to Fix it'' (September 2012), Yale University Press, . *''Energy, the State, and the Market: British Energy Policy since 1979'' (February 2004), revised edition, Oxford University Press, . As editor *''The Economics and Politics of Climate Change'' (October 2009), with

Cameron Hepburn Cameron Hepburn is the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, the Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford, and formerly a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science ...

, . *''The New Energy Paradigm'' (April 2007), . *''Climate Change Policy'' (May 2005), . *''Environmental Policy: Objectives, Instruments, and Implementation'' (November 2000), . *''Competition in Regulated Industries'' (April 1998), with

Tim Jenkinson Tim Jenkinson is Professor of Finance at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His research is on initial public offerings (in particular the analysis of bookbuilding), securitisation and private equity. He teaches the Private Equity co ...

, . *''British Utility Regulation: Principles, Experience and Reform'' (September 1995), . *''The Economic Borders of the State'' (December 1990), . *''The Market for Energy'' (May 1989), with John Kay and David Thompson, .

Selected peer-reviewed articles

*Helm, D., 2008. Climate-change policy: why has so little been achieved?.

Oxford Review of Economic Policy ''Oxford Review of Economic Policy'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on ...

, 24(2), pp.211–238. JSTOR: 23606642; doi
10.1093/oxrep/grn014
*Helm, D., 2005. The assessment: the new energy paradigm.

, 21(1), pp.1–18. JSTOR: 23606814; doi
10.1093/oxrep/gri001
*Helm, D., 2002. Energy policy: security of supply, sustainability and competition. Energy policy, 30(3), pp.173–184. doi
10.1016/S0301-4215(01)00141-0

References

External links

Personal websiteNatural Capital Committee Website
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