Common Wealth

Study: Labour's clean energy plans could save up to £1bn on interest payments alone

Energy

Study: Labour's clean energy plans could save up to £1bn on interest payments alone

Energy transition will be slower, costlier, and less secure without major public investment in renewables, think tank Common Wealth argues

clock 15 February 2024 • 4 min read
Toxic corporate bonds are bankrolling the climate crisis

Investment

Toxic corporate bonds are bankrolling the climate crisis

Asset managers and other corporate bond investors have become the fossil fuel industry's funders of last resort, warns Common Wealth's Sophie Flinders

clock 07 December 2023 • 4 min read
Over half of Brits back faster switch to clean energy

Energy

Over half of Brits back faster switch to clean energy

Green groups call on government to deliver more ambitious clean energy transition plan, as Scottish Power boss warns UK risks squandering renewables opportunity

clock 07 March 2023 • 7 min read
Passive funds pose a major threat to the net zero transition and economic stability

Investment

Passive funds pose a major threat to the net zero transition and economic stability

In an era of 'asset manager capitalism', passive funds are undermining fossil fuel divestment progress by propping up polluting industries falling out of favour from active investors, writes Common Wealth's Chris Hayes

clock 12 April 2022 • 5 min read

Policy

Let's pass a Green Recovery Act

Climate damage is morally wrong, argues Ewan McGaughey, and a Green Recovery Act could hold the key to averting a crisis even worse than the coronavirus pandemic

clock 06 July 2020 • 6 min read

Biodiversity

Green New Deal: Government urged to introduce UK Restoration and Rewilding Plan

Latest report from Commonwealth think tank argues subsidy reforms and carbon taxes could see a quarter of UK land returned to nature

clock 15 September 2019 • 5 min read