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.
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.
Lockdown lifestyle: does working from home reduce carbon emissions?
While the majority of studies find that working from home reduces carbon emissions, researchers from the Sussex Energy Group find that it’s not that simple.
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