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Why the UK should introduce payments for electricity ‘negawatts’
This post is by Rachel Cary, leader of Green Alliance’s Low Carbon Energy theme. British energy efficiency policy to date has mainly focused on domestic insulation, and rightly so: we have a...
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Five ways to make sustainable capitalism a reality
This is an excerpt from an article by David Blood, co-founder with Al Gore of Generation Investment Management. The full version appears in Green Alliance’s journal Inside Track. Since its inception...
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Why a carbon price alone won’t shift the UK to renewable energy
This post is by Rachel Cary, leader of Green Alliance’s Low Carbon Energy theme. Putting a price on carbon is widely championed as an economically efficient way of cutting carbon emissions. Some even...
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Energy switching is dead, long live the market in energy saving
This post by Green Alliance’s director Matthew Spencer first appeared on BusinessGreen. The Prime Minister created a storm when he announced that energy companies would have to put consumers on the...
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My big idea: government should support its own policies
This is a guest post by Duncan Brack, formerly Chris Huhne’s special adviser and now a freelance researcher. It is part of a series on big ideas to reduce the UK’s environmental impact. My big idea is...
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Tackling the other housing crisis
This is a guest post by Bruce Tofield, who led the University of East Anglia’s involvement in the European energy saving project Build with CaRe. Earlier this year, we provided detailed evidence of...
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Working towards sustainable capitalism
William Andrews Tipper, head of sustainable business at Green Alliance, gives his response to an event on sustainable capitalism held recently by the St Paul’s Institute with Al Gore. This post first...
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The risks of a never-ending search for certainty in the energy market
Following last week’s post by Duncan Brack on the importance of consistency in climate change policy, Guy Newey of Policy Exchange explores the challenges of providing certainty in the energy market....
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Why gas can’t solve the UK’s energy woes
This is a guest post by Jim Watson, director of Sussex Energy Group. The role of natural gas is at the heart of the increasingly fractious debates about UK energy policy – whether it is the pros and...
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Cities are moving faster to a low carbon future
This post by Green Alliance’s Alastair Harper first appeared on the New Statesman’s Current Account blog. Our cities are the R&D facility for the country. From 4G rollout to community energy, they...
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Can wine, quizzes and advice help reduce people’s energy use?
This is a guest post by Graham Smith, professor of politics at the University of Westminster, and principal investigator of a project on community-based initiatives for energy saving. It’s a widely...
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British economic policy would benefit from more Olympic discipline
This post is by Green Alliance director Matthew Spencer and independent energy consultant Paul Arwas, the authors of Green Alliance’s new pamphlet Nurturing UK cleantech enterprise which is published...
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Radical activists play a vital role in political & corporate change
This post by George Marshall, founder and programme director of the Climate Outreach Information Network, first appeared on Guardian Sustainable Business. Large businesses and governments often regard...
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How to make City Deals greener
This is a guest post by Andy Nolan, Director of Sustainable Development at Sheffield City Council. Eight core English cities including my own have now signed City Deals to boost their economies[1]....
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How to thrive in a green, low growth economy – take more holiday
This post by Jørgen Randers, professor of policy analysis at the Norwegian School of Management, first appeared on Guardian Sustainable Business. Imagine if we could limit human production to levels...
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The hidden giants of infrastructure
This post first appeared on BusinessGreen. Industrial strategy hasn’t been fashionable for a long time. Anyone romantic enough to have spent February 14th watching Harold Wilson Night on BBC Parliament...
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Why we’d be mad to leave the EU (hint: the public quite likes clean beaches)
This is a guest post by Caroline Jackson, former MEP and chairman of the European Parliament environment committee from 1999-2004. “We need to examine whether the balance is right in so many areas...
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7 reasons why cities hold the key to sustainability
Chris Guenther, research director at SustainAbility, argues that cities offer the best hope for rapidly developing and replicating sustainability solutions. A longer version of this article will appear...
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Greens should keep their powder dry: Brussels doesn’t always know best
This post is by Matthew Farrow, director of policy at the Environmental Services Association, writing in a personal capacity. I recently attended a judicial review hearing for the first time. The...
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We can’t make poverty history without environmental resilience
This post is by Christine Allen, director of policy and public affairs at Christian Aid. At Christian Aid we strongly believe that, unless development is also environmentally resilient, we can’t end...
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