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| Sustainable Economy | Pricing the Priceless |
This report, "Pricing the Priceless, the business case for action on biodiversity", finds that protecting biodiversity and introducing new frameworks to incorporate the value of nature into decision making will be vital to safeguard long-term economic growth.
Read the full report below.
| Transparency and Reporting | The costs and benefits of mandatory GHG reporting |
The Aldersgate Group (AG) commissioned a new report by adelphi which provides independent analysis of Defra’s Impact Assessment (IA) for mandatory carbon reporting.
It finds that for all large companies (option 3), Defra overestimates the total costs by up to £4,600m and underestimates the benefits by up to £980m. Read the full report below.
| Best Value Regulation | Dealing with Deficits |
This report, subtitled "Best value regulation to reduce our environmental and financial debts", argues that regulation is an essential tool to stimulate growth, while a crude, deregulatory drive would risk damaging competitiveness. While the Government remains committed to reducing the cost and volume of regulation on the economy through measures such as the 'one-in, one-out' rule, the report questions whether this makes sense to address pressing environmental challenges, such as clim...
| Green Growth | Greening the Economy |
A strategy for growth, jobs and success
This report urges the Chancellor to set out a comprehensive green growth strategy in the upcoming Budget. It finds that governments around the world are implementing plans to attract global investment in environmental technologies and the UK economy risks being left behind. The green growth strategy must include a strong policy framework to address market failures across the economy, combined with a concerted push to supp...
| Financing the Future | Financing the Future |
A Green Investment Bank to Power the Economic Recovery
The AG has launched a new report that is a collection of articles written by leading commentators from finance and industry that put forward their views on the scope, barriers and capitalisation of the Green Investment Bank.
| General | Accelerating the Transition |
Priorities for the first 100 days of government
Published immediately before the General Election, this report sets out a list of key priorities for the new administration’s first 100 days, arguing that the new government must prioritise environmental reform with the same urgency as economic reform. It lists eight priorities necessary to set the UK on a low carbon, resource efficient path.
