Analysis
Climate impacts on cocoa
Average price per kilo of cocoa beans imported into the UK has risen 32% over the last three years.…
Election poll: what do rural voters think about climate change and net zero?
We commissioned More in Common to poll 50 of the most ‘highly rural’ seats in Great Britain, with five from each English…
Estimated financial losses faced by UK farmers due to wet weather impacts on key arable crops
Arable farmers face losing nearly a billion in revenue as a result of the wet winter.…
Farm to Fork Summit: Poll reveals farmers more worried about climate change, and show stronger support for net zero than public
Farmers see extreme weather as biggest threat to UK’s food security over the next ten years…
Estimated decline in headline self- sufficiency for UK food production due to the projected reduction in arable crop output in 2024
Decline in output could reduce headline self-sufficiency across all UK farming sectors from 86% to 78%, when measured by…
The real-life costs of fuelling a PHEV
The real-world fuelling costs of these PHEVs are £672 a year higher than their electric equivalents.…
Election poll: Voters for all parties committed to net zero
Poll finds widespread, majority support for the UK’s net zero climate target across voters for all main parties.…
Analysis of UK farm cropping plans and estimated impact of the wet winter on production
Analysis using Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) cropping forecasts to estimate the production volum…
Scottish voter attitudes to net zero
Household energy: buying British
Households with a heat pump and electric vehicle are far less dependent on foreign oil and gas imports, make more use of…
UK going ‘backwards’ – Government’s energy security strategy scores 3/10
2 years on from the British Energy Security Strategy, only 3 of 10 key commitments have been met.…
Energy insecurity
A year on from the ‘Powering Up Britain’ strategy, Government policy is pushing the UK backwards on energy security.…
El Niño, climate change, and UK food supply
We explore the UK food imports from around the world at risk as El Niño has been turbo-charging climate change impacts w…
IPCC Explainer: Climate change synthesis report
A visual tour of what you need to know from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report cycle (2021-2023)…
Big four: global momentum
How the ‘Big Four’ emitters – China, US, India and the EU – could play their part in bending the global emissions curve …
The UK’s net zero economy
Ahead of election, key battleground seats three times more likely to be net zero economic ‘hotspots’…
The Cost of Gas in 2.5years of the Gas Crisis
UK will have spent around £105bn buying gas on wholesale markets in 2.5years of the gas crisis, adding around £75bn of c…
Cost of NOT zero in 2023
Cumulative savings of £70bn on the UK’s energy bill could have been made had investments happened over past decade.…
Snap poll: voters concerned over energy security and bills following Labour U-turn
Respondents thought U-turn meant Labour had “no real plan for what it would do differently if it wins power”…