Queen’s birthday honours for CREDS researcher Janette Webb
CREDS researcher Janette Webb, Professor of Sociology of Organisations at the University of Edinburgh, has been granted a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to energy transition in the UK.
Delivering a net zero NHS
Report launched this week on the path to a net zero NHS, supported by CREDS researchers.
You can’t always get what you want: a reflection on Climate Assembly UK’s deliberations on decarbonising passenger transport
Given where we are now and the short timescales required to decarbonise, only difficult decisions and very few win-win options remain. Jillian Anable shares her thoughts on the Climate Assembly outcomes.
Notes from a post COVID-19 Milton Keynes: concrete cows, roundabouts & warehouses
CREDS researcher, Tadj Oreszczyn is leading a project to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on domestic energy use and reflects in this blog on why Milton Keynes has fared so well during the pandemic.
The GLA launches the London Solar Opportunity Map, created by the UCL Energy Institute
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Solar Opportunity Map which shows the energy potentially available on all roofs and areas of open land for the whole of the capital out to the M25 motorway.
The GLA launches the London Building Stock Model, built by the UCL Energy Institute
We’re excited to announce the launch of the London Building Stock Model which provides detailed data on every separate domestic and non-domestic building in the 33 Boroughs of Greater London.
New retrofit standards, new roles, existing policy, do they all fit together?
CREDS researcher Marina Topouzi recently undertook training to become a ‘Retrofit Co-ordinator’ and discusses how these new roles can support green jobs recovery.
Conceptualising Demand: A distinctive approach to consumption and practice
This new book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of energy demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered?
Greening homes: Turning round the construction supertanker
Retrofit is a good idea, but it needs to be done well if it is to be done at all.
Ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans
We support the proposed policy change of bringing forward the end to the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans from 2040 to 2035 or, earlier.
A data strategy to promote the clean growth of UK industries
New report from CREDS and Aether explores whether the existing data on industrial energy use and emissions can meet the challenges associated with the UK’s ambition to be net zero by 2050.
Covid-19, the built environment, and inequalities
We are all facing the same storm but we are in very different houses. Covid-19 has not only brought into sharp focus the relationship between housing and health – but it also laid bare the extent of racial inequalities in the UK.