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Demand for cleaner, more efficient technologies is transforming global markets and with it, the geography of innovation. Over the last 15 years, markets for new energy technologies and climate resilience have outpaced gr...Read more...
Samuel Asuquo Edet, Chiara Criscuolo, Ejona Fuli, Selin Gonca Ozyurt, Ralf Martin, Chhavi Rastogi, Samuel Rosenow, Fabian Scheifele, Trang Thu Tran, Verena Wiedemann, Nadege Yameogo and Golvine de Rochambeau
15 July 2025
This report analyses innovation activity represented by patenting data for two carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies - bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and direct air carbon capture and storage (DACC...Read more...
Josh Burke, Siyu Feng, Maxwell Read, Esin Serin and Ram Smaran Suresh Kumar
9 July 2025
Ever since the European Union created its market-based carbon policy, governments and businesses have been keen to assess its impact. Jonathan Colmer, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Ulrich Wagner explain why analysing ...Read more...
Jonathan Colmer, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Ulrich J. Wagner
18 October 2024
Sustainability is the focus of this second blog post about the survey of UK businesses carried out by LSE's Centre for Economic Performance and the Confederation of British Industry. Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Bruno Serra-L...Read more...
Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Bruno Serra-Lorenzo and Anna Valero
3 July 2024
The scale of change and investment required for net zero is challenging, but early action is the most cost-effective way to achieve the 2050 target and could bring opportunities....Read more...
Leo Mercer, Esin Serin and Anna Valero
Alexandra Roulet and Philippe Aghion explain how consumers' green conscience can foster clean innovation and provide tips for how companies can reach green goals in a highly competitive market....Read more...
Philippe Aghion and Alexandra Roulet
25 April 2024
In her Mais lecture, the Shadow Chancellor diagnosed the UK's problems of economic stagnation, persistent inequality and the instability that geopolitical shocks and climate change bring. Anna Valero outlines what a solu...Read more...
Anna Valero
28 March 2024
The Spring Budget 2024 prioritised short-run tax cuts, with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt taking an extra 2% off national insurance contributions. This was anticipated, given we are in an election year - but it marks another mi...Read more...
Esin Serin, Anna Valero and Dimitri Zenghelis
6 March 2024
The urgent need for tackling climate change brings with it the need to understand the impacts of net zero policies on the labour market. Various approaches have been taken in attempts to measure and describe green jobs, ...Read more...
1 March 2024
In the global race for supremacy in 21st century markets, the UK must create expertise in building and deploying new energy technologies, and access the opportunities for stronger and more resilient growth that will brin...Read more...
Anna Valero and Dimitri Zenghelis
9 February 2024
The Insights series is an introduction to the work of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). Each Insight highlights the contribution of CEP researchers to both academic understanding and policymaking in one area of ...Read more...
6 February 2024
A car's longevity is important for consumers' budgets as well as for the environment. But reliable evidence on the longevity of electric vehicles is hard to come by. Viet Nguyen-Tien and Robert Elliot, with fellow author...Read more...
Robert J.R. Elliott and Viet Nguyen-Tien
2 February 2024
This paper uses administrative tax records linked to Census demographic data and high-resolution measures of fine small particulate (PM2.5) exposure to study the evolution of the Black-White pollution exposure gap over t...Read more...
Jonathan Colmer, Suvy Qin, John Voorheis and Reed Walker
18 January 2024
Growth will be a key focus of the forthcoming Autumn Statement, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer will deliver this Wednesday. Anna Valero, Esin Serin and Brendan Curran argue that effective measures to promote green...Read more...
Brendan Curran, Esin Serin and Anna Valero
20 November 2023
This week's King's Speech has paved the way for a further weakening of climate policy in the UK by introducing a bill to support future oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. Esin Serin and Anna Valero explain how this a...Read more...
Esin Serin and Anna Valero
8 November 2023
The UK Government has an opportunity to mobilise far greater amounts of private investment for public policy priorities than is the case now. Blended finance, deployed well, offers a tried and tested pathway for public a...Read more...
Sarah Gordon and Anna Valero
26 October 2023
Rising demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is changing the geopolitical landscape, as the world pivots away from fossil fuels towards the green minerals critical to the EV supply chain. Benjamin Jones, Viet Nguyen-Tien, R...Read more...
Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin Harper, Benjamin Jones and Viet Nguyen-Tien
20 October 2023
This paper revisits one of the rare success stories in global environmental cooperation: the Montreal Protocol and the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances. I show that the protocol increased science and innovation on...Read more...
Eugenie Dugoua
22 September 2023
Rishi Sunak was propelled into explaining his new position in a hastily arranged press conference after details of plans to adjust (water down) his commitment to green policies were leaked to the BBC. Anna Valero and Lor...Read more...
20 September 2023
The UK government appears to be watering down its commitments to net zero, breaking the cross-party consensus on the need for Britain to lead in the global battle against climate change. Yet now is the time to double dow...Read more...
Esin Serin, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen
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Ufuk Akcigit and John Van Reenen
22 August 2023
This is a decisive decade for addressing the UK's longstanding productivity problems, large and persistent inequalities across and within regions, and delivering on net zero commitments. Anna Valero has contributed this ...Read more...
19 July 2023
Is innovation our best hope for dealing with climate change and, if so, how can we stimulate the sort of innovation that we need to make the green energy transition? Philippe Aghion tells Tim Phillips that we need both c...Read more...
Philippe Aghion and Tim Phillips
This is the decade for managing the immense risks of climate change, and delivery on net zero. That means rapidly increasing the share of renewable sources in our energy mix alongside a step-change in energy and resource...Read more...
Pia Andres, Ralf Martin, Esin Serin, Arjun Shah and Anna Valero
22 June 2023
Achieving climate neutrality will require cost reductions and the rapid diffusion of existing technologies, as well as innovation in new technologies. Mario Cervantes, Chiara Criscuolo, Antoine Dechezlepretre and Dirk Pi...Read more...
Mario Cervantes, Chiara Criscuolo, Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Dirk Pilat
1 June 2023
