IPPR

Policy

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

clock 29 April 2019 • 10 min read

Policy

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

clock 11 March 2019 • 2 min read

Risk

Crisis? What crisis? That crisis. That crisis there.

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

clock 13 February 2019 • 10 min read

Climate change

Climate and economic risks 'threaten 2008-style systemic collapse'

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

clock 12 February 2019 • 5 min read

Politics

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

clock 21 October 2018 • 1 min read

Legislation

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'

clock 10 October 2018 • 4 min read

Infrastructure

'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

clock 09 October 2018 • 5 min read

Efficiency

Government 'will miss fuel poverty target by more than six decades'

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

clock 04 July 2018 • 2 min read

Policy

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

clock 19 November 2015 •

Efficiency

Huge questions left unanswered over government's energy efficiency plans

Changing policies is fine if it improves the status quo, but scrapping schemes without a back-up plan is the wrong move and will only increase costs in the long-term, argues Jimmy Aldridge.

clock 27 July 2015 •