Sussex Energy Group at SPRU

Dr Max Lacey-Barnacle, Senior Research Fellow As global climate policies face growing public scrutiny, rising political tensions around the costs of decarbonisation and increasing geopolitical instability, researchers, practitioners and policymakers are being forced to grapple with a core societal challenge…

Paul Mathews Sometimes I get over-excited at cheap stuff in ‘the middle-of-Lidl’ (perhaps a sign of getting old…). But earlier this year it was very much with a professional energy policy hat on. Sadly it wasn’t in the UK, but…

Photo credit  Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence By Siegfried Evens, Visiting Fellow, SPRU and SEG Governments around the world revisit nuclear energy as part of the race to net zero. But an important question often remains overlooked: how do we train…

Credit CC By 2.0 Dr Josh Lait, Prof Tim Foxon,  Dr Andrew Sudmant, and Mr Ruaidhri Higgins-Lavery.  This has previously been published on the EDRC site: https://www.edrc.ac.uk/news-blog/climate-action-is-undervalued-how-can-we-fix-that/ A backlash against the United Kingdom’s net-zero commitments is growing. It tends to…

In 2013 I published an article called “The political sustainability of climate policy: The case of the UK Climate Change Act.” I concluded  that the political future of the Act was uncertain. For many years that seemed unduly pessimistic, and…