Words by Briony Latter Audience travel is one of the biggest contributors to the carbon emissions of live music events. Along with Adam Corner and Chiara Badiali, we launched a project to provide the live music industry with recommendations for…
Organisational transformations for a greener future
The Policy Terrain This is a time in history that asks a great deal of us all. The IPCC’s (2021) “brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all” represents an uncompromising challenge…
Cost of living crisis hasn’t dented public support for climate policies… and there are some policies which are almost universally supported
New data shows the UK public continue to support ‘net zero’ policies, despite the cost-of-living crisis. Polling undertaken by Ipsos and CAST in October 2022 find many climate policies actually enjoying higher levels of support than in August 2021. This…
How can SMEs be supported to rapidly decarbonise? Try talking to them about what really matters
By Sam Hampton and Richard Blundel Collectively, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make a significant contribution to carbon emissions. Transformative changes are needed to achieve Net Zero amongst the SME population, presenting policymakers and practitioners with a complex and largely…
Positively influencing the travel choices of live music audiences
By Dr Adam Corner After two years of cancellations, postponements and last minute Covid-19 no-shows, a full programme of live music and festivals is now finally underway again in 2022. Rewind to just before the pandemic, and some long overdue…
Why is public engagement and participation with net zero so important?
CAST’s Deputy Director Christina Demski has been on a part-time secondment to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as Net Zero Public Engagement Advisor since 2020. As part of her role supporting research and policy teams to…
Climate emergency declarations: what do they tell us about universities response to climate change?
Words by Briony Latter This piece was originally published by the Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN) and is reproduced here with their permission. The past two years have seen a sustained and high level of publicity around climate change in the…
Mapping the transformative turn: a systematic review of the academic literature on transformations for climate change mitigation
Words by Brendan Moore The past decade has witnessed a “transformative turn” in the social science literature on climate change mitigation as academics and policy makers increasingly use the concept of “transformations” to describe the rapid, fundamental societal changes needed…
The transition to a post-carbon economy must uphold social justice
“The individuals, households and communities that stand to be most negatively affected by decarbonisation policies are often already losing out in existing socio-economic arrangements.” Dr Tom Pegram, UCL In a new policy briefing, the COP26 Universities Network warns that the…