Environment & Climate Group

Publications

Try you hand at achieving net zero for the UK by 2050

The DECC have reissued David Mackay's 2050 carbon pathways calculator with new graphics. David Mackay was the author of Sustainable Energy – without the hot air. The calculator allows you to pull the main levers controlling carbon dioxide emissions and so explore ways of achieving net zero by 2050

Click here to link to the Government webpage to read about, and then access, the calculator ( the detailed calculator is probably the best to use)

Policy Options

Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Industry - Successful Approaches and Lessons Learned -OECD and IEA Information Paper

Carbon Pricing

Cap and Trade

Carbon Pricing Policy

Climate Change Committee

This report by The Adaptation Committee provides an Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk and sets out the priority climate change risks and opportunities for the UK. The report draws on an extensive programme of analysis, consultation and consideration by the Committee involving over 450 people, 130 organisations and more than 1,500 pages of evidence and analysis

Independent-Assessment-of-UK-Climate-Risk-Advice-to-Govt-for-CCRA3-CCC.pdf