In this important election year, investors are looking for a supportive policy environment that provides the confidence and certainty needed to make long-term investments in the UK’s transition to net zero. The building blocks of a sustainable finance framework are…

Climate change made UK’s waterlogged winter worse 3 hours ago Mark Poynting,Lucy Vladev Joe Gidden/PA Brussel sprout crops have been hit by the wet weather Climate change is a major reason the UK suffered such a waterlogged winter, scientists have…

Five ‘sensitive’ policy interventions would put the UK back on track to deliver climate neutrality by 2050, researchers at the University of Oxford’s Climate Econometrics Programme have outlined in a new strategy paper published in the Journal Renewable Energy. Despite…

Climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges, and Brunel academics are working with other universities and policymakers as part of a new £5 million hub – Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) hub –  to assess how…

Space heating and hot water in UK homes account for more than 20% of the country’s total carbon emissions. This has prompted efforts to encourage a move away from high carbon natural gas boilers, which are currently the predominant choice,…