UK businesses stand to benefit from closer alignment between the UK and EU Emissions Trading Schemes, argues BEEF's Andrew Warren. ...
Climate change
The UK Government’s 2008 Climate Change Act was the first of its kind in setting out a comprehensive mitigation and adaption plan to bring net emissions of targeted greenhouse gases to zero by 2050. Implementing those plans will be a challenge for the UK government.
IEEP UK has carried out a range of activities to examine the impact and effectiveness of the UK’s climate change policy (such as the role of bioenergy, transport strategy, energy conservation and the challenge of adaptation) as well as interactions with its international partners. Below is a selection of the work carried out.
Latest news
Last week the UK closed its last remaining coal fired power station becoming the first G7 economy to end its reliance on one of the ...
On the 4 September, the Government laid a new Bill before Parliament, rather drily called the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill. To many, this innocuous ...
The last 6 months have seen a high volume of legislative files completed. In fact, the months leading up to the elections in June saw ...
Latest publications
Ahead of our next webinar, "The air we breathe: Regional and local perspectives on air quality policy in the EU and UK", IEEP UK has ...
The European Commission proposed a zero-emission road mobility target for 2035 to reduce emissions produced by new passenger cars by 100% compared to 2021. Electric ...
The October European Council set out a package of targets for Europe’s climate emissions and its energy system up to 2030. The headline goal of ...