As the Government consults the Climate Change Committee on delivering the UK’s new emissions reduction target, CAST offers its perspective. While the goal is bold and necessary, Keir Starmer’s assertion that we can achieve it without any changes to people’s lifestyles is misguided, and unhelpful.
Words by Dr Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett, Senior Research Associate After Labour’s landslide victory, there was an audible sigh of relief from many environmental advocates. E3G, for example, deemed it a ‘super strong mandate for ambitious climate action and green investment’, with the party’s pledge to decarbonise the UK’s energy supply by…
CAST has received a further five years of funding from the ESRC for Phase 2 of our research. We will be focused on tackling hard-to-change behaviours – aka ‘sticky issues’ like flying and eating meat – in order to accelerate social transformations to net zero.
We explore four insights from the CCC’s 2024 Progress Report that highlight the necessity of social science in the pursuit of Net Zero.
Photo Credit: The Active Well-Being Society (formerly Big Birmingham Bikes) / Ashden (Words by Climate Barometer team, originally posted on the Climate Barometer blog) It’s well established that the UK climate sector is very unrepresentative in terms of ethnic diversity – but climate opinion data is too often under-representative too….
A new CAST report highlights the importance of putting people at the heart of climate change action and reveals how policymakers and practitioners can better engage people with climate initiatives.
New data from the re-launch of the CAST Data Portal: Public views on climate, drawn from four years of research on public climate perceptions from the UK, Brazil, China and Sweden, reveals that public concern about climate change is still high and people are supportive of urgent action. From 2020-2023,…
CAST Director Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE stars in the ActNowFilm premiering at COP28 as one of 30 climate experts from across the world in conversation with youth climate leaders calling for young people to be at the frontline of global climate policymaking and negotiations. The ‘ActNowFilm: youth climate leaders in…
Our latest CAST report on a pilot project on repair and reuse initiatives, as part of a collaboration with Keep Wales Tidy, shows they are an effective way of preventing waste and providing community benefits to urban and rural communities in Wales. In our latest CAST report: ‘Circular Economy in…
© Photography by Beryl Bikes A new CAST survey report, produced in collaboration with Cornwall Council as part of a year-long project, has revealed that Cornwall residents are more concerned about climate change than the rest of the UK and strongly back climate action. In our new survey report: ‘Cornwall…