The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) has published the UK Government’s climate and nature public participation plan: Energising Britain. Professors Patrick Devine-Wright, Karen Bickerstaff, Lorraine Whitmarsh (ACCESS Leadership Team) and Nigel Gilbert (ACCESS Co-Investigator) contributed to the plan through roundtable sessions organised by DESNZ and the British Academy this year, as did […]
ACCESS’s Patrick Devine-Wright, Alice Moseley and Jenny Hatchard recently delivered a webinar, hosted by Environment Platform Wales, which looked at Welsh public opinion on net zero and climate policy. They shared insights from the ACCESS Net Zero Citizens’ Survey undertaken in Summer 2024, and looked at Welsh support for Net Zero targets and views about the likelihood […]
ACCESS Director Patrick Devine-Wright (University of Exeter) was one of five social science experts invited to attend a roundtable discussion on Public Engagement with Grid Transformation in December 2024. Also invited were Catherine Queen (University of Liverpool), Melanie Rohse (Angela Ruskin University), Matthew Cotton (Teeside University), and Jason Chilvers (University of East Anglia). The summary note from that roundtable was published […]
Karen’s piece on the FST blog argues that the solution to the net zero challenge lies more in socio-technical interventions that enable adjustments to how we live, rather than in purely technological interventions that sustain current patterns of demand and expectations around consumption, and she stresses that social science research is critical in supporting such […]
In November 2024, Professor Patrick Devine-Wright was invited to speak about ACCESS at the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES). The webinar was organised by Ethny Childs, Communities & Partnerships Lead at IES. IES were interested in exploring how interdisciplinarity can support improved policy and practice, particularly in the climate space, and were particularly keen to […]
In its 2024 Progress Report to Parliament, the UK Climate Change Committee makes clear that the government “will have to act fast” to hit the country’s 2030 target of a reduction in carbon emissions to less than 32% of 1990 levels. Given the scale and speed of change inherent in decarbonisation, social scientists might expect a […]
About FEVER Working towards meeting the UK government’s 2035 zero-emission pledge, and later 2050 climate goal, the FEVER project concentrates on the design, development, and demonstration of a 100% renewable-powered EV charging station, facilitated by an innovative off-vehicle energy store (OVES). This will create a secure, year-round, and – crucially – grid-independent charging solution for EVs. Moving […]
The ACCESS Network has announced new funding for three environmental research projects. Together they examine and evaluate opportunities to encourage people to get more involved in climate action By empowering young people in climate decision-making Strengthening pro-environmental values amongst British Muslims Improving our understanding of how acts of caring in communities can lead to a […]
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