The Grantham Research Institute produces a range of policy publications to inform UK and international decision-making on issues related to climate policy and the environment. These range from short briefings which provide analysis on topical issues and outline specific recommendations to more in-depth insights into major policy areas, as well as keynote speeches by Institute staff. The Institute also responds to formal consultations, domestic and international, on issues related to climate policy and the environment. Institute staff regularly contribute to policy reports published by other research centres and international institutions too, which you will also find listed here. Our policy publications are reviewed by internal and external referees before publication.
Following the recent establishment of a Joint NGFS-INSPIRE Study Group on Biodiversity and Financial Stability by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) and INSPIRE, this vision paper sets out the rationale for the Study Group’s work, its initial agenda and its research focus. Read more
This report uses a new data-driven online tool, the Green Transition Navigator, to analyse the green competitiveness of the seven individual G7 member states and invited countries. Read more
This paper produced to accompany 'G7 leadership for sustainable, resilient and inclusive economic recovery and growth', covers: how to make 'levelling up' or 'building back better' work better; multilevel finances in recovery and building back better: Germany and the US; and strengthening the role of the European Commission, before drawing some policy lessons for the G7 and for other systemically important countries. Read more
In this technical note SYSTEMIQ has aggregated a range of estimates in order to come to a picture of low-carbon investment opportunities across the 2020s. The note accompanies the report by Nicholas Stern, 'G7 leadership for sustainable, resilient and inclusive economic recovery and growth'. Read more
This report sets out core elements of an overarching and integrated strategy for recovery from the COVID-10 pandemic and growth, as a contribution to the preparation for the G7 Summit taking place in Carbis Bay, Cornwall (11 to 13 June 2021). Read more
A response from the Department of Health and Social Care to Bob Ward, the Grantham Research Institute’s Policy and Communications Director, following a letter sent by Mr Ward to the Prime Minister on 27 August 2020 to recommend a new comprehensive cross-government strategy to deal with the risks created by hot weather. Read more
A letter to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson from the Grantham Research Institute's Policy and Communications Director, Bob Ward, renewing a call to create and implement a National Heat Risk Strategy. Read more
A letter to Steve Baker MP from the Grantham Research Institute's Policy and Communications Director, Bob Ward, in response to a recent article written by Mr Baker titled ‘It’s alright for some: The poorest will pay the highest price for Net Zero fantasies’. Read more
This policy report sets out why central banks in the EU need to adopt net-zero strategies, and provides seven concrete recommendations for how they can. Read more
The Grantham Research Institute submitted this response in July 2020 to a consultation launched by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) in May 2020 to gather views on its intention to refresh its core aim as stated in its Maximising Economic Recovery Strategy for the UK [MER UK Strategy], which came into force in March 2016. Read more
