Reports & policy briefs

This guidance note presents evidence on the value of Bicester’s green spaces to local people, gathered through a public survey in summer 2017, using interviews, a focus group and an online app; and through a new online tool called ORVal that estimates the welfare value of green spaces for recreation anywhere in England.

Data from the Energy publics project final report.

In the Canadian Maritimes, coastal sea level rise, changing temperatures, and erratic weather impact the way food is produced, stored, distributed, and consumed. We asked 40 farmers, retailers, and other food system actors about the vulnerability of the Maritimes food system. Our research identifies key areas of intervention for governments and other institutions, from integrating local knowledge to inform adaptation action to switching to more sustainable and resilient practices. 

E-SPAS (Energie Sparen An Schulen) is an energy education program at primary schools in Emden, north western Germany. The objective is to raise awareness about energy efficiency and to convey practical know-how about energy saving in households.

A reports on decisions about theories of change and existing frameworks for assessment made through the IN-BEE project.

Tackling climate change presents both a profound challenge and opportunity to improve people’s lives and the environment. This report aims to promote discussion and provide practical ideas about how Oxfordshire can achieve both a fair and a fast transition to a low-carbon economy in a way that benefits local residents, reduces social divides and builds public support for action. With a foreword by Danny Dorling.

This report provides a policy framework to ensure that all energy use in all buildings in the whole UK results in zero carbon emissions by 2050. The study views the challenges from a people’s perspective – the roles of the property owner and the occupant – with the implications for energy supply one of the results. The emphasis on energy services, rather than energy purchases, shifts the debate on to demand reduction rather than energy supply and on to lower, not higher, bills. Investing in greater energy efficiency provides users with a better standard of living: a future-friendly property is one that it is warmer, more comfortable, healthier.

Home Truths reveals that not only is an 80 per cent cut in household emissions achievable, but it can be done in an equitable and fair way that wipes out fuel poverty and enables every UK citizen to live in a warm, comfortable home. The low-carbon house – the individual is warmer, has more hot water and can even have more appliances than now. Carbon emissions are cut, national energy security is increased and fuel poverty has disappeared. Market transformation is the strategic approach recommended, setting a long-term policy framework and recognises that combinations of policies are the most effective.

This presentation was given as part of a seminar on 26 April 1989 at No. 10 Downing Street to members of the Cabinet. Nick Eyre co-authored the presentation during his time at the Energy Technology Support Unit (ETSU). The presentation discusses eight options for what the UK might do to mitigate carbon emissions: reforestation; burning waste; energy efficiency; alternative transport fuels; removal of carbon dioxide; renewable electricity; more nuclear power; and alternative fossil fuel generation.