This report provides a detailed characterisation of low-carbon jobs from the last decade in the United States and the United Kingdom, bringing new evidence to support policy discussions. Read more
UK
In this interview on the GB News Nigel Farage show Bob Ward discusses the UK's Net Zero Review. Read more
Lord Stern (chair of the Institute), Bob Ward (Director of Policy and Communications) and Esin Serin (Policy Analyst) respond to the publication of the independent review into net zero which was commissioned by the UK government. Read more
This paper presents new simulation results for the UK combining macroeconomic simulations in ThreeME, a computable general equilibrium model, with... Read more
This research uses a novel experiment to elicit the willingness to accept of 2,430 nationally representative UK households for smart meter installation. Randomized information treatments allow for assessment of the impact on adoption and willingness to accept of oft-cited market failures, namely imperfect information asymmetries and diffusion externalities Read more
Responding to media reports that the Government is due to give approval this week for a new coal mine in... Read more
Responding to the Met Office’s announcement that 2022 is likely to be the UK’s warmest year on record, Bob Ward,... Read more
This paper investigates the impact of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on carbon emissions and economic performance using the largest dataset published to date. Read more
The authors of this paper adopt a two-step system GMM estimation procedure to estimate the effect of energy efficiency on CO2 emissions for 119 UK universities over the period between 2008–2009 and 2018–2019. Read more
Bob Ward responds to figures from the Office for National Statistics’ figures showing a record number of 3,271 heat-related deaths this summer in England and Wales. Read more