The built environment

Why is transport so hard to decarbonise? We explore the challenges to decarbonising transport, focusing on transport in cities. We also consider potential strategies and solutions.

Using digital technologies to help manage buildings and energy systems has huge potential for emission savings.

Reducing energy consumption required to heat homes, and decarbonising the energy that remains, is vital to achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century.

The net-zero city will be easier to live and move around in, using less energy and wasting far fewer resources. Many of our basic assumptions about cities will need to be re-thought to get there.

Communities with the lowest incomes typically experience the highest levels of indoor air-pollution. This podcast explored the origins of these inequalities and what we might do to mitigate them.

Explore this summary of the latest research enabling heat pumps to go large scale.

This podcast looks at the different possibilities for a more sustainable future in the UK and what barriers lie in the way.

For green cities of the future to be realised, new approaches are needed that address an entire system rather than the individual interlinked parts of the system.

This policy brief explores how the transport sector will have to undergo structural changes over the next 30 years to deliver deep emission reductions.