The Covid-19 crisis has hit the oil and gas industry hard. Extraction has shrunk as health restrictions have been put in place and demand has dwindled, threatening tens of thousands of jobs...
Publication
Report
Environment
Environmental Justice Commission
Coronavirus response
IPPR
From #BuildBackBetter and Black Lives Matter to net zero – 2020 has been characterised by calls for a better and more sustainable future. This paper explores how we can better design public policy to support a rapid and fair transition to net zero and the restoration of nature.
Publication
Report
Environment
Jobs & skills
Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
The government should use the ten-point plan to deliver an investment-led economic recovery focused on job-creation, decarbonising the economy, restoring nature, and tackling inequality.
Publication
Briefing
Economy
Environment
Jobs & skills
Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
This is a call for evidence on food and the recovery of nature, communities and livelihoods for the nature, food and farming theme of IPPR’s Environmental Justice Commission (EJC).
Publication
Environment
Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
From #BuildBackBetter to Net Zero to Black Lives Matter – 2020 has been characterised by calls for a better and more sustainable future. Transition narratives have dominated much of the public...
Blog post
Long read
Environment
Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
This case study looks at the ups and downs of the transition in progress in Alberta - famous as Canada’s energy province: endowed with a combination of natural gas, conventional oil, coal, minerals and the famous oil sands.
Blog post
Expert comment
Environment
Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
Learning from the examples of Gothenburg and Pittsburgh suggests that local leadership must carefully and strategically manage existing assets and networks in order to absorb shocks of the kind the two cities faced.
Blog post
Expert comment
Environment
Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
The coming months are a critical period for national policy making, but they could also be a major opportunity to find solutions that match up to the reality of people’s lives across the UK.
Blog post
Expert comment
Environment
Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
Lusatia is no stranger to industrial change. In the late 1950s, German coal mining was in a crisis. It had become cheaper to import coal rather than buy it domestically and nuclear power plants were becoming more common.
Blog post
Long read
Environment
Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
Addressing the climate crisis, like the coronavirus, has forced us to rethink the ways in which we live and how our neighbourhoods are designed. It has highlighted baked-in inequalities as well as...
Blog post
Expert comment
Environment
Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
