IPPR

'Urgent need of renewal': Why the UK must learn from US to deliver green growth

Policy

'Urgent need of renewal': Why the UK must learn from US to deliver green growth

UK risks falling behind in global net zero investment race, but the government still has 'fingers in its ears', according to think tank IPPR

clock 14 March 2023 • 6 min read
'Economic, environmental and political necessity': How boosting net zero spending offers solution to UK's economic woes

Policy

'Economic, environmental and political necessity': How boosting net zero spending offers solution to UK's economic woes

Evidence continues to mount that public spending on net zero should be a solution to UK economic woes rather than a victim of a renewed round of austerity

clock 16 December 2022 • 10 min read
Heroes or monsters: What's the most compelling story to galvanise climate action?

Marketing

Heroes or monsters: What's the most compelling story to galvanise climate action?

Fresh research from IPPR sets out how campaigners and businesses can best ring fence climate action from culture war divisions

clock 25 July 2022 • 4 min read
IPPR sets out vision for delivering a fair and accessible net zero transport network

Transport

IPPR sets out vision for delivering a fair and accessible net zero transport network

Newly established Fair Transition Unit publishes report outlining how to ensure a fair national transition to a net zero transport system

clock 11 July 2022 • 3 min read
Why the Chancellor's approach to energy policy is so flawed

Policy

Why the Chancellor's approach to energy policy is so flawed

The Chancellor's 'wait and see' approach to dealing with the gas price crisis could have devastating impacts on families crippled by ever-rising energy bills, argues the IPPR's Josh Emden

clock 05 May 2022 • 4 min read
Alok Sharma urges countries to keep climate promises after 'fragile win' at COP26

Politics

Alok Sharma urges countries to keep climate promises after 'fragile win' at COP26

COP26 President calls on G20 nations in particular to strengthen 2030 emissions targets this year

clock 28 March 2022 • 4 min read
Only a gas-free, energy efficient future can insulate UK from future crises

Energy

Only a gas-free, energy efficient future can insulate UK from future crises

UK still urgently needs warmer, gas-free, energy-secure homes that green investment brings, even if climate change didn’t exist, argues IPPR's Josh Emden

clock 27 January 2022 • 5 min read

Work

'People's dividend': Cross-party commission sets out vision for delivering a fair and popular net zero transition

IPPR's Environmental Justice Commission publishes 100 recommendations drawn up with citizens juries that aim to place fairness at the heart of net zero transition

clock 14 July 2021 • 6 min read

Policy

Green industrial strategy: Time to listen to the public

The people have spoken: it should always be more cost effective for businesses to benefit, rather than cause harm to, the environment, writes IPPR's Joshua Emden

clock 14 July 2021 • 4 min read

Policy

Aberdeenshire residents back plans to transform region from oil capital into clean energy hub

First-of-its-kind climate citizen’s jury sees residents back proposals for Scottish region to become a 'centre of excellence' for clean energy

clock 18 June 2021 • 3 min read