Environment

The climate commons: How communities can thrive in a climate changing world

The climate crisis, and the response to it, present opportunities for communities in the UK as well as threats.

11/03/2021

Publication Report Environment Environmental Justice Commission IPPR

Tees Valley and County Durham Climate and Fairness Panel

The Tees Valley and County Durham Climate and Fairness Panel is one of four citizens' juries around the UK held by the Environmental Justice Commission in late 2020 and early 2021.

16/02/2021

Publication Report Environment Environmental Justice Commission IPPR

Net zero North Sea: A managed transition for oil and gas in Scotland and the UK after Covid-19

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...

03/12/2020

Publication Report Environment Environmental Justice Commission Coronavirus response IPPR

Lessons learned: Just transitions from around the world

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.

02/12/2020

Publication Report Environment Jobs & skills Environmental Justice Commission IPPR

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