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Laurie Laybourn-Langton

Senior Research Fellow Laybourn-Langton Laurie Laurie leads a major project developing policy responses to environmental collapse. His work also covers political economy and how shifts occur in …

Editorial - Britain Unmoored: In Search of a Progressive Foreign Policy

Since the second world war and end of empire, British foreign policy has been moored to two powerful partners. Our ‘special relationship’ with the US has dominated our defence policy, through the …

British leadership in the Anthropocene: an interview with Margaret Beckett

Laurie Laybourn-Langton :   Margaret Beckett, you are a former Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for the Department for the Environment, Farming & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), among other roles …

Editorial - The Road to Ruin: Making Sense of the Anthropocene

Ours is the age of global environmental collapse. Resources are being consumed at around 1.5 times the Earth’s ability to regenerate them. We are living through the sixth mass extinction and nearly …

Net-Zero North: Delivering the decarbonisation mission in the north of England

The British economy is at a critical juncture. Its future success depends on overcoming two major, interrelated problems – long-term structural weaknesses in investment, productivity and trade, and …

The Budget did not address the deep economic challenges the UK faces

The Chancellor said today that the future is bright and that he is building a Britain fit for the future. But that’s not what it looks like to many people, including economists. The uncertainties of …

Tackling air pollution is both a challenge and an opportunity

The government’s commitment to ban the sale of new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans after 2040 is a welcome move. This is because it provides an explicit signal to drivers and manufacture…

Killer congestion blighting air quality in regional cities, study warns

The UK's regional cities are in breach of the legal limits on air quality by up to 150%, threatening the lives of children and adults, report warns. Government, councils and transport bodies …

Gearing up for the transition: The role of transport in a Northern energy strategy

In recent years, there has been a growing understanding of the leading role that road transport plays in illegal air pollution. The government is now required to bring air pollution to within legal …

London should embrace digital technology to clean up its dirty air