Decarbonising Heating in Homes – Can the UK Parliamentary Committee for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy make progress?
Jan Webb reflects on the recent BEIS inquiry on heating homes where, alongside Nick Eyre director of CREDS, she answered questions about potential technologies, including housing retrofit, and their challenges and price tags.
Government, policy and impact in CREDS
What are the routes to policy impact? Kay Jenkinson explores in her latest blog.
Decarbonising Scottish heat demand: implications for electricity networks
Reflections on CREDS webinar ‘Decarbonising Heat Demand: a Scottish Case Study’ by researcher Daniel Scamman
Building sector emissions hit record high, but low-carbon pandemic recovery can help transform sector – UN report
CREDS researcher Ian Hamilton was lead author on the recent Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction which reported that CO2 emissions increased to 9.95 GtCO2 in 2019 – a record high.
Identifying the vulnerable: energy and transport poverty and beyond
Guest author, Caitlin Robinson, reflects on our webinar ‘Identifying the vulnerable: energy and transport poverty and beyond’ which made the case for greater recognition and understanding of the intersection between energy poverty and transport poverty – termed double energy vulnerability.
It’s time to stop talking about targets and instead talk about governance
A target isn’t action – it is the promise of it. This blog and call for papers asks how carbon targets are interpreted at and across different levels of governance and different policy areas?
CREDS’ response to the Committee on Climate Change’s recommendations for the UK’s sixth carbon budget
We are already confident that the social and technical changes identified in the CCC report can reduce energy use by significantly more than their projections assume.
Social entrepreneurship at the grid edge
This project provides an evidence base of how community groups are responding to opportunities for Community Led DSR and Collective Self-Consumption.
Our response to the government’s 10-point plan for a ‘Green Industrial Revolution’
There remains too little to convince us that the government has yet understood the need to prioritise reducing energy demand.
More and better homes – the opportunity of self build
Slower not faster planning permission offers opportunities for housing innovation. Guest author Matt Lane discusses in our latest blog.
Health inequalities & climate change assessed together for equitable green recovery
CREDS researcher, Ian Hamilton, supported work on a report, released last Friday, which looks at the inequalities in health and the health of our planet.
CREDS Director Nick Eyre appointed as scientific advisor to Oxford City Council
Nick Eyre appointed as Oxford City Council’s first scientific advisor in its efforts to move to net zero.