Playing with food (policy): The need to rapidly implement a net-zero National Food Strategy
How do we drive affordable, accessible, nutritious – and critically low carbon – diets across the UK, and what policy mechanisms could be palatable enough to achieve this? In this blog, Alice Garvey summarises our new briefing (published today) which explores policy options for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from the UK’s food supply sector.
The intersections between racial justice and energy demand research
Sarah Higginson and Bowale Fadare look back to the conversation that inspired our hiring a researcher to explore the intersections between vulnerability and energy demand.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Podcast
Sarah Higginson, CREDS’ Knowledge Exchange Manager, talks to UKERC about what we have been doing to improve equality, diversity and inclusion within CREDS.
Low income and living in a rural area increases the risk of double energy vulnerability
How can we make sure the transition to a net-zero society is just and ethical, ensuring that those who are on a low-income, vulnerable or marginalised are not further disadvantaged?
Seven reasons global transport is so hard to decarbonise
Transport is now the largest emitting sector in many developed countries, accounting for 21% of global carbon emissions. In this blog, Christian Brand, lists out seven reasons why it is such a hard sector to decarbonise.
SME and sustainability research – the beginning of a new research network?
In this blog, Tina Fawcett and Sam Hampton talk about their desire to facilitate a stronger SME and sustainability research network, through which they hope to support a just transition of SMEs to net-zero.
Using knowledge exchange to help research make sense
CREDS Centre Manager, Clare Downing, reflects on the motivations for undertaking a research paper on knowledge exchange – as a way to encourage researchers to think more about embedding it within their research projects for greater impact.
Why the PM is wrong: we cannot avoid ‘hairshirtism’ because of the technological promises of ‘guilt-free flights’
In this blog, CREDS researcher Noel Cass argues that radical behaviour change is needed if we are to meet net-zero goals and points to research undertaken by many within CREDS that shows we actually need less.
Changing our way of living – why and how?
While changes to our lifestyle are crucial, they do not often enough translate into policy. How could personal carbon budgets contribute to those changes?
Re-thinking the zero carbon energy transition
Nick Eyre explores a new way of thinking about the energy transition, as well as showing how it will lead to major opportunities for energy efficiency.
The contribution energy demand reduction could make to tackling the climate emergency
Our upcoming report, The role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK, will be launched on 6 October. In this blog, Sam Betts-Davies and John Barrett point to one of the key findings that the UK could reduce its energy demand by 52% by 2050 relative to 2020 levels.
Generating Mobility Futures
Greg Marsden gives a taster on our upcoming new report which addresses the issue of how much energy we need for everyday life and what the carbon implications of different futures might be.
Banner photo credit: Jack Cain on Unsplash