Events

Trust in transition

Climate breakdown and high carbon workers

Trustees

Trying to stay afloat

Coastal communities in the UK: a vision for starting up, not shutting down

Turbulence expected

The climate cost of airport expansion

Turning back to the sea

A Blue New Deal to revitalise coastal communities

Turning “Generation Rent” into “Generation Buy”

Hanna Wheatley on talkRADIO

Two in five families will be unable to afford a decent standard of living by the next general election

Households unable to afford a decent living will fall short by £10,000 a year on average, according to new analysis by the New Economics Foundation

Two thirds of flights from London City airport could have been completed by train

New analysis published as Labour government is due to make final on airport’s expansion plans

Two thirds of public favour support over strict job-seeking requirements for people on benefits

Strict requirements for people on benefits are pushing people into poor-quality jobs and away from support

Two-thirds of local authorities will see their income fall in real terms by 2025 under the government’s proposed BRRS

Analysis from the New Economics Foundation finds that government’s current plans will increase geographic inequalities in the UK

UK Community Development Finance Institutions

From surviving to thriving – realising the potential of community development finance

UK companies could face new costs up to £1.6bn if the EU doesn’t deem the UK’s post-Brexit data protection standards adequate

Without an ‘adequacy decision’ from the EU, smaller businesses will bear the brunt of the costs of new data transfer restrictions, according to new research

UK enters a second lockdown

Miatta Fahnbulleh on talkRADIO

UK exit plan, economic recovery, public sector pay and Brexit

Alfie Stirling on talkRADIO

UK faces a skills shortage with only 6% of workers upskilling for a new job pre-pandemic

Govt should introduce a new retraining scheme to improve labour market resilience and support the transition to a low-carbon economy, according to the New Economics Foundation

UK fishing: deal or no deal

The only viable option appears to be an agreement that sounds like ‘taking back control’, but changes very little.

UK government should use its own financial institutions to finance net-zero transition

Accelerate the UK economy’s transition to a net-zero economy by scaling up government-owned financial institutions and giving them a strong climate mandate

UK govt spending a billion pounds less on cutting domestic emissions than it raises through carbon taxes

Just 20% of the new revenue raised from the emissions trading scheme this year will be reinvested to tackle climate change