
Watch: Carsten Jung on Sky News: Climate After Covid
IPPR Senior Economist Carsten Jung participates in the Sky News special programme Covid After Climate, answering audience questions as part of an expert panel.
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IPPR has welcomed the prime minister’s expected announcement of a new target to cut UK greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68 per cent by 2030 as an “important signal”. But it has urged the...
Cut North Sea production and stop exporting surplus oil and gas as we reduce our own emissions Opportunity for hundreds of thousands of new, well-paid jobs in green economy but urgent...
Think tank warns that £33 billion a year investment is needed if the government is to deliver its 'green industrial revolution' The head of IPPR’s cross-party Environmental Justice Commission...
Labour backs IPPR call for green job creation to drive recovery In its proposals, the Labour party has also backed IPPR’s proposals for a National Investment Bank focused on climate, a...
On the eve of what would have been the start of COP26 in Glasgow, IPPR calls on the government to lead by example with ambitious action The IPPR think tank is today warning the UK is off...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.