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'Large and persistent skills gaps': Construction bodies urge Chancellor for green skills support
'Large and persistent skills gaps': Construction bodies urge Chancellor for green skills support

Construction industry leaders warn gap in green building skills threatens to undermine the UK's net zero transition

  • Skills
  • 23 February 2021
'Educate, inspire, and involve': Could citizens' climate juries help fix the Green Homes Grant scheme - and a lot more besides?
'Educate, inspire, and involve': Could citizens' climate juries help fix the Green Homes Grant scheme - and a lot more besides?

Residents of Tees Valley and County Durham back improved climate and nature education, ring-fenced carbon taxes, ‘green bonds’ and higher spending to hit net zero in first of four citizens' climate panels convened by IPPR

  • Net Zero Now
  • 16 February 2021
'Net Zero Deal': UK and Scotland urged to work together to help keep North Sea oil and gas in the ground
'Net Zero Deal': UK and Scotland urged to work together to help keep North Sea oil and gas in the ground

The UK must deliver a managed transition for the North Sea oil and gas industry that curbs production but maintains employment opportunities, a new IPPR report argues

  • Work
  • 03 December 2020
IPPR: Decarbonising homes in North England could deliver £3.85bn boost
IPPR: Decarbonising homes in North England could deliver £3.85bn boost

Green home upgrades in the region could create hundreds of thousands of jobs and drive down emissions, think tank estimates

  • Infrastructure
  • 17 November 2020
Reality check: New studies highlight scale of net zero challenge
Reality check: New studies highlight scale of net zero challenge

From the UK and EU to China and Japan, even those major economies that are committed to net zero emissions remain far from delivering the green recovery measures required to rapidly accelerate decarbonisation efforts

  • Energy
  • 09 November 2020
When it comes to low carbon heating, the government must up the ante
When it comes to low carbon heating, the government must up the ante

Energy efficiency measures work best when designed around new green heating systems such as heat pumps, argue IPPR's Jonathan Webb and Joshua Emden

  • Policy
  • 16 July 2020
As unemployment mounts, research points to 1.6 million green jobs opportunity
As unemployment mounts, research points to 1.6 million green jobs opportunity

Prioritising green homes, tree planting, and charge points could help tackle mounting job losses, according to new reports from IPPR and REA

  • Work
  • 02 July 2020
Does the UK need a Royal Commission to assess environmental risk?
Does the UK need a Royal Commission to assess environmental risk?

Major new report from IPPR warns the UK is 'acutely vulnerable' to escalating environmental breakdown

  • Climate change
  • 24 June 2020
'This is the moment': MPs and campaigners call for multi-billion pound net zero recovery drive
'This is the moment': MPs and campaigners call for multi-billion pound net zero recovery drive

Cross party Environmental Justice Commission sets out demands for 'faster, further and fairer' net zero transition

  • Net Zero Now
  • 27 May 2020
Faster, Further, Fairer - how business can lead a green recovery
Faster, Further, Fairer - how business can lead a green recovery

WSP's David Symons, a commissioner of IPPR’s Environmental Justice Commission, sets out three key areas business can play a part in delivering net zero after Covid-19

  • Management
  • 27 May 2020
Coronavirus fallout: Calls grow for airlines to face strict climate targets in any rescue deal
Coronavirus fallout: Calls grow for airlines to face strict climate targets in any rescue deal

Think tanks Common Wealth and IPPR issue joint report calling for any airline bailout to include strict climate targets

  • Aviation
  • 23 March 2020
Lessons from Laustiz: What can the UK learn from Germany's just transition policies?
Lessons from Laustiz: What can the UK learn from Germany's just transition policies?

Efforts to redevelop the historic coal mining region of Laustiz in Germany are the result of empowering local communities - it is imperative the UK does the same, argues IPPR's Josh Emden

  • Politics
  • 04 March 2020
IPPR: UK should pay £20bn into UN climate fund
IPPR: UK should pay £20bn into UN climate fund

The UK's contribution to global decarbonisation should be more in line with its 'fair share' of responsibility for climate breakdown, think tank says

  • Policy
  • 29 November 2019
Net zero: The cost myth
Net zero: The cost myth

Acting on climate change won't cost us the earth, but inaction will, argues IPPR's Josh Emden

  • Policy
  • 18 November 2019
IPPR: Sustainable Economy Act would force government to act on all green issues
IPPR: Sustainable Economy Act would force government to act on all green issues

Proposed Act would avoid narrow focus on greenhouse gas emissions and promote action to preserve wider natural systems, argues think tank

  • Legislation
  • 01 August 2019
Net Zero: CCC expected to call for 2050 target, as MPs propose climate 'war footing'
Net Zero: CCC expected to call for 2050 target, as MPs propose climate 'war footing'

Ed Miliband and Caroline Lucas back new Environmental Justice Commission, as pressure on government to embrace net zero emission target intensifies

  • Policy
  • 29 April 2019
Northern England: IPPR calls for 'Just Transition Commission'
Northern England: IPPR calls for 'Just Transition Commission'

Influential think tank calls on government to emulate Scotland and introduce Just Transition Commission for carbon intensive communities across Northern England

  • Policy
  • 11 March 2019
Crisis? What crisis? That crisis. That crisis there.
Crisis? What crisis? That crisis. That crisis there.

James Murray reflects on a dispiriting and inspiring day, as IPPR declares #ThisIsACrisis

  • Risk
  • 13 February 2019
Climate and economic risks 'threaten 2008-style systemic collapse'
Climate and economic risks 'threaten 2008-style systemic collapse'

Environmental and social problems could interact in global breakdown, report says

  • Climate change
  • 12 February 2019
Report: North of England poised for green jobs boom
Report: North of England poised for green jobs boom

Think-tank IPPR suggests workers in the North could benefit from 46,000 new green jobs by 2030

  • Politics
  • 22 October 2018
Lethal but legal: Government faces fresh calls to strengthen air pollution standards
Lethal but legal: Government faces fresh calls to strengthen air pollution standards

IPPR report argues Brexit could provide the government to set stronger air quality rules for domestic heating that honour its pledge to be 'more ambitious about achieving cleaner air'

  • Legislation
  • 11 October 2018
'Tell Sid' the future of energy is local
'Tell Sid' the future of energy is local

IPPR's Hywel Lloyd and Luke Murphy reveal how a decentralised clean energy system could deliver on the vision of both Clement Atlee and Margaret Thatcher

  • Infrastructure
  • 10 October 2018
 Government 'will miss fuel poverty target by more than six decades'
Government 'will miss fuel poverty target by more than six decades'

IPPR says reform is needed of scheme for installing energy efficiency measures

  • Efficiency
  • 04 July 2018
Coal end date shows real leadership. But what should replace it?
Coal end date shows real leadership. But what should replace it?

The UK's pledge to close coal plants by 2025 sends a powerful message ahead of the Paris climate change talks

  • Policy
  • 19 November 2015
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