The UK Government has announced that it will be setting a target to reduce carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels in law as part of its sixth Carbon Budget. The new target represents an increase in ambition relative to the previous target of 68% as it [...]
Businesses and governments across the world are drawing up and delivering plans to reach net zero in the coming decades. Our Climate Emergency team are supporting some of them – including London Borough’s and the Environment Agency – with corresponding roadmaps and actions. Part of this conversation is reviewing an [...]
The UK government has announced billions of pounds of new investment in roads and charging infrastructure for electric vehicles as part of its Spending Review 2020. Dr Gavin Bailey, Sustainable Transport Lead at Eunomia, has carried out extensive research on sustainable transport options, including into the implementation of electric bus [...]
For much of the past century, the car has been the ultimate status symbol. From the newly qualified teenager to the high-flying executive, the car has come to represent aspiration, success and freedom. But our love of the car has come at an environmental and public health price that we [...]
City centres shut down in spring, slowly opened in summer, and now many are questioning what role they’ll play in an autumn overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In August, the UK government launched its post-pandemic ‘Build back better’ stimulus package. Planning restrictions were adapted to boost development, the public were [...]
Liverpool City Council (LCC) has appointed Eunomia, the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) and independent experts Sarah Toy and Jess Read to develop a roadmap for the city to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Liverpool City joined 277 local authorities in declaring a climate emergency in 2019 and [...]
Alex Massie, Climate and Ecological Emergency Specialist at the leading environmental consultancy Eunomia has applauded technology giant Apple’s plan to be carbon neutral across its business and manufacturing supply chain by 2030 but is calling on Apple – a famously disruptive brand – to go further still. Alex, who is [...]
Earlier this year, we stopped travelling and spending when governments imposed lockdowns to halt the spread of coronavirus. As a result, the demand for oil plummeted, and prices subsequently fell to historically low levels. Today the value of oil is back in the news because these changes led to dividend [...]
The UK has been basking in sunshine for weeks now and more time at home means more people playing in the garden and filling their paddling pools. The dry spell has had more serious results in Cumbria, though, where water levels are low, and the local utility company has applied [...]
Eunomia is proud to have been appointed by London Borough of Redbridge to assist with the development of the authority’s response to its Climate Emergency declaration. Last summer, London Borough of Redbridge declared a Climate Emergency and committed to developing a plan to make all council operations carbon neutral by 2030 and [...]