Environment

The road to COP26: A clean and fair recovery at home and a leader on climate and nature abroad

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.

08/11/2020

Publication Briefing Economy Environment Jobs & skills Environmental Justice Commission IPPR

Lessons learned from a heavily industrialised region in Canada

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.

15/10/2020

Blog post Expert comment Environment Environmental Justice Commission IPPR

People powered solutions to the climate crisis

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...

22/09/2020

Blog post Expert comment Environment Environmental Justice Commission IPPR

We are not ready: Policymaking in the age of environmental breakdown – Final report

Environmental breakdown is the defining challenge of our time. This is the final report of a major research programme investigating the implications of the global environmental crisis for politics...

24/06/2020

Publication Report Environment Anthropocene IPPR

Faster, further, fairer: Putting people at the heart of tackling the climate and nature emergency

This interim report of the IPPR Environmental Justice Commission finds that to act with the ambition and scale that the climate and nature emergency demands, requires a new approach.

27/05/2020

Publication Report Environment Environmental Justice Commission IPPR

Budget 2020: Level up the economy, step up to the environmental crisis

Rishi Sunak faces one of the most difficult budgets in living memory. The country faces its lowest economic growth rate in a decade, further exacerbated by the expected disruption caused by the...

08/03/2020

Blog post Expert comment Economy Environment Environmental Justice Commission IPPR

Our responsibility: A new model of international cooperation for the era of environmental breakdown

Environmental breakdown is accelerating and poses an unprecedented threat to international cooperation. A new positive-sum model of international cooperation is needed, which should seek to realise a...

22/11/2019

Publication Briefing Environment IPPR

Putting people at the heart of the green transition

There is a growing political and public consensus on the need for rapid action, at scale, to tackle the climate and environmental crises. And there are an increasing number of advocates for a just...

22/10/2019

Publication Report Environment IPPR Environmental Justice Commission

Inheriting the Earth? The unprecedented challenge of environmental breakdown for younger generations

Younger generations, in addition to being economically worse off than their parents, face a future of unprecedented environmental breakdown. They will disproportionately bear the burden of having...

17/09/2019

Publication Briefing Environment Anthropocene Young people IPPR

This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown

Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognise that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage, potentially eroding the conditions upon which socioeconomic...

12/02/2019

Publication Report Environment Anthropocene