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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...
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...
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Four Tests for Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Migration Statistics, August 2010
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Now It's Personal
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Why Interns Need a Fair Wage
A briefing from ippr and Internocracy >
Regeneration Through Co-operation
Creating a framework for communities to act together >
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