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.
CREDS Autumn webinar series
We are pleased to share details of four webinars we are hosting over the coming months.
Seasonality – our second flexibility reading room
Our online reading room featured four presentations on seasonality which led to interesting discussion on a huge subject.
Nation’s First: Health inequalities & climate change assessed together for equitable green recovery
CREDS researcher, Ian Hamilton, supported work on a report, released today, which looks at the inequalities in health and the health of our planet.
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.
Product energy efficiency: now we can do anything, what should we do next?
A recent BEIS call led CREDS associate Fiona Brocklehurst to explore the energy saving potential of a range of policy options.
Delivering a net zero NHS
Report launched this week on the path to a net zero NHS, supported by CREDS researchers.
UK Climate Assembly findings: this crisis needs leadership
Are we still failing to understand what is meant by a “climate crisis”? John Barrett takes a look at the difficult decisions required by government to achieve the 2050 net zero target.
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.
Visions and fantasies of the sustainable future – how to understand narratives of the low carbon transition
A new paper unpacks the rhetoric behind possible futures for case studies including automated mobility, electric vehicles (EVs) and smart meters.
Online reading room explores temporal aspects of energy demand
The Flexibility team were joined in an online reading room by a panel of international guests to discuss a new article, Conceptualising flexibility.
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