Overview
These climate and environment resources have been collected from the organisations below and presented here to share valuable knowledge from across the sector. Unless specifically stated, Green Alliance was not involved in the creation of these resources and does not necessarily endorse all output by these organisations.
Explainer briefings
The basics
UK climate policy
Green Alliance
- Securing our future: a programme for government
- UK Net zero policy tracker: March 2024 update
- Greenpeace comprehensive election manifesto recommendations
- Offshore workers’ election demands for a Just Transition in the North Sea
- Briefing outlining the scale of the UK’s plastics crisis
Wildlife and Countryside Link
National Trust
Climate Change Committee
E3G
Homes and heating
Green Alliance
Friends of the Earth
Warm this Winter
- Manifesto check-list from a coalition of leading anti-poverty and environmental organisations
National Energy Action
E3G
- A new deal for locally led home upgrades
- Enabling locally led retrofit
- Electricity levy rebalancing: Make clean heat accessible to all UK households
- Cutting energy bills and raising standards for UK private renters
- The role of heat pumps in building a high skill, high wage economy: A race to the top for standards and jobs
- Routes to market for heat pumps
- Supporting warmer homes for rural communities
Transport
Carbon Brief
Diplomacy and global policy on climate and environment
Carbon Brief
- Key outcomes from COP28: Article and Webinar
- How the UK has spent its foreign aid on climate change since 2011
Greenpeace
Environment and nature
Greenpeace
Wildlife and Countryside Link
- 2023: Year in review of chemical pollution
- Nature 2030: Freshwater
- Nature 2030: Marine environment
- Nutrient pollution: an alternative approach
- Habitats Regulations: what’s at risk and how can we build on and strengthen the Regulations to be more effective for nature and people?
- Protected landscapes: what’s needed next for nature?
- The state of pollution in rivers
- Improving public access to nature
- The role of the Environmental Rights Bill in meeting nature targets
- CBD COP15 one year on – where we are now
- Working with nature to restore the water environment: policy briefing on nature-based solutions
- Wildlife crime in 2022
Keep up to date
Blogs, reports and latest thinking
- Inside Track | A blog on environmental policy and politics, hosted by Green Alliance
- Labour Climate and Environment Forum | Essays and comments from an organisation working across the labour movement to strengthen climate and environmental ambition
- Climate Barometer: Opinion trackers | Public and parliamentary opinion trackers on climate and environment
- Unearthed | Investigative journalism from Greenpeace UK
Newsletters
- CarbonBrief | Excellent newsletters daily (for today’s climate headlines) and weekly (for a an in-depth digest of developments in climate, including analysis research and insights)
- Climate Home News | Weekly newsletter digests the week’s climate news with analysis and coverage of international politics related to the climate crisis
- Global Climate Diplomacy Briefing | Comprehensive monthly newsletter briefing on the key developments in global climate diplomacy
- Political Heat | A newsletter to make sense of climate politics
Podcasts
- Green Alliance Podcast: ideas, debate and insights on UK environmental policy and politics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Website
- Political Heat: a podcast to make sense of climate politics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Website
