Candice Howarth and Matt Lane consider how we can better align knowledge on climate change resilience with the needs of local decision-makers, including by improving the accessibility of the UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessments. Read more
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Responding to the Chancellor’s announcement of a £3 billion investment package to create green jobs and upgrade buildings, Professor Lord... Read more
The five key areas in which investment is essential to ensure a post-pandemic recovery that “builds back better”, have been... Read more
This study estimates the combined direct and indirect rebound effects from energy efficiency improvements in the delivery of six energy... Read more
The declaration today of an official Level 3 heat-health alert by the Met Office and Public Health England may have... Read more
This is a response to the Bank of England's discussion paper, 'The 2021 biennial exploratory scenario on the financial risks from climate change'. The response has been prepared by authors from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE, the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London, and the University of Edinburgh Business School. Read more
Josh Burke responds to reports of a record period without coal power in the UK. In this article he is quoted as saying the economics were not very compelling before for coal we not compelling before the COVID-19 pandemic and that he doesn't believe the situation will improve in the current climate. Read more
This paper describes an experiment on a nationally representative sample of UK households that aimed to quantify resistance to smart meter adoption and test for the existence of commonly cited market failures that inhibit the adoption of energy-saving technologies. The authors measured if households would adopt a smart meter without financial compensation and, for those households unwilling to do so, the subsidy level that would be necessary to persuade them. Read more
A broader information campaign educating consumers about the society-wide benefits of household-level action could increase uptake of smart meters if paired with a reasonable subsidy scheme, finds new research. Read more
The Climate Change Act was passed in the UK in November 2008 with an overwhelming majority across political parties. It... Read more