Behaviour change and travel demand reduction – the Lords are listening?
At a recent discussion at the House of Lords’ Environment and Climate Change Committee, Jillian Anable focused on the difficult, systemic rethinking of transport that is required to achieve swift reductions in car mileages.
Why is it so hard to engage SMEs on climate change?
Katherine Sugar and Sam Hampton report on an SME Engagement Workshop, discussing the challenges of SME engagement and how these can be overcome.
Peer-to-peer energy: lucky for some?
Peer-to-peer buying and selling of electricity could mean bill savings – but it depends on who you know and where you live.
Do teleworkers travel less? The challenge of tele-sprawl
Does working from home reduce travel or does it encourge more trips for purposes other than commuting as well as people choosing to live farther from their place of work?
Why the ‘Energy Security Strategy’ won’t work
The Prime Minister’s strategy will boost UK energy supply, but any effective strategy also has to address how much energy we use and how to reduce it.
Why leaving climate policy to behaviour change will never be fair
In this blog, Noel Cass argues that the decisions people make are determined by infrastructure – yet the government still treats these systemic determinants as if they are simply matters of consumer choice.
Women in energy
To mark the end of Womens’ History Month, Anuja Saunders, EDI Manager at CREDS looks at the work still to be done to break the bias in the energy sector.
Excess energy consumption – is it reasonable to put a limit on how much energy we use?
In this blog, Noel Cass summarises our new report, launched today- Curbing excess: high energy consumption and the fair energy transition. The two-year research project looked at how excess consumption of energy could be curbed, in a fair way.
The chancellor’s new help on energy costs will do nothing to tackle the root causes of the energy bills crisis
The increase in household energy costs announced last week will add further to the rising cost of living in the UK, which is now at its highest level in thirty years. In this blog, Jen Dicks argues that long term solutions to rising energy costs need to be addressed urgently.
Energy-demand-reducing measures can play a major role in helping the economy to bounce-back from the long-term impacts of Covid-19
In this blog, Jen Dicks summarises the report Cambridge Econometrics worked on with CREDS and argues that energy demand reduction measures should form a critical part of both the economic recovery and longer-term climate policy.
Should we worry about the carbon footprint of a website?
We’ve recently made some changes to the design of the CREDS website to improve it’s energy efficiency rating. In this blog, Hannah Harris explains why we think that’s important and how usability of content plays a crucial role.
Flexible working: A great opportunity to improve our home-office environment and increase multiple benefits
CREDS researchers have developed an innovative idea – the Retrofit Salary Sacrifice scheme – designed to allow employees to invest in retrofit to improve their home-work environment which is repaid via gross salary contributions.
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