Publications
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Environment & Energy Publications
Running on Empty
Robert McIlveen and Andrew BrinkleyThe report examines how we can meet the challenge of securing sufficient and secure gas supplies in the decade ahead. As our nuclear and coal power plants shut down gas will be needed to fill the gap, which will require a more strategic approach from government.
Delivering a 21st Century Infrastructure for Britain
Ben CaldecottOur latest report estimates that in order to renew and replace much of Britain’s tired infrastructure, around £500 billion will need to be spent by 2020 to improve Britain’s competiveness, stimulate economic growth and meet the challenge of climate change.
A Wasted Opportunity: Getting the most out of Britain’s Bins
Robert McIlveen and Ben CaldecottA Wasted Opportunity recommends the radical overhaul of the UK’s waste system to reduce the cost on households, improve recycling rates, increase local authority efficiency and expand the proportion of the UK’s energy needs met through waste.
Green skies thinking: Promoting the development and commercialisation of sustainable bio-jet fuels
Ben CaldecottGreen Skies Thinking recommends the setting of achievable and enforceable targets for replacing standard kerosene jet fuel with bio-jet fuel from 2020, through the implementation of an EU-wide Sustainable Bio-jet Fuel Blending Mandate. This would result in reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from the UK and EU aviation sectors of 15% in 2020 and 60% in 2050 relative to current predictions.
Knowledge is power: securing transparency in Britain’s liberalised energy market
Ben Caldecott and Robert McIlveenTo help alleviate the crisis of confidence in Britain’s liberalised energy market, Knowledge is power sets out a number of options to improve transparency for consumers and the market.
Litterbugs: How to deal with the problem of littering
Ben Caldecott, Tara Singh and Thomas SweetmanLitterbugs highlights the blight of littering in the UK, identifies a lack of systematic logic in enforcement policy and proposes new means of cracking down of those responsible.
Credible Energy Policy
Web AdministratorCredible Energy Policy sets out why current energy policy is no longer fit for purpose, and provides a comprehensive overview of what is now required to address our ambitious climate change objectives, whilst maintaining security of supply.
The Root of the Matter
Tara Singh, Ben Caldecott and Thomas SweetmanIn this report, we argue that preventing deforestation, promoting afforestation/reforestation and stopping peatland destruction are some of the cheapest and most effective ways of reducing global emissions.
Six Thousand Feet Under: burying the carbon problem
Thomas Sweetman and Tara SinghThis report argues that Carbon Capture and Storage is essential to meet UK CO2 targets and deliver clean electricity and that the UK is ideally placed to spearhead a new movement to cutting carbon emissions internationally.
Green Dreams: A decade of missed targets
Thomas Sweetman and Tara SinghGreen Dreams looks at the Government’s “green” targets over the last ten years highlighting a worrying high failure rate with little to show for hundreds of targets set
