Policy Areas

Current Projects

Green Streets - Communities

Green Sreets is a cutting-edge social experiment, led by British Gas, aiming to help meet the challenge of climate change. Fourteen 'communities' have been provided with a portion of a £2 million fund and expertise from British Gas to develop an...

Green-collar jobs: Developing a green industrial strategy for the UK

New: Read our latest report on jobs and the low-carbon transition, published in November 2009. Read ippr's submission to the Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry into green jobs and skills. ‘Green-collar jobs’ are well-paid, caree...

Fuel Poverty: Where next?

Read our new report on fuel poverty, The Long Cold Winter , published in March. In this joint project between ippr and National Energy Action , we set out a comprehensive picture of the measures that energy companies and the Government...

A fair climate? Creating a socially just response to climate change

The next two years will be a crucial time for climate change policy as the government develops its policy framework for meeting the emission reduction targets set out in the Climate Change Bill. At the same time, the government has clear social po...

The Global Climate Network

Visit the new Global Climate Network website. How can the dangerous deadlock at the heart of international climate negotiations be broken? What policies are needed at the national level in the world’s leading economies to clear the w...

Is Personal Carbon Trading the best option for tackling climate change?

Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) - whereby individuals are allocated equal emission rights on a per capita basis - appears to be a potentially progressive approach to reducing carbon emissions, but no systematic assessment exists of this route versus...