This paper explores people’s willingness to reduce travel consumption in support of the transition to a low-carbon pathway beyond COVID-19 using new survey data from UK car drivers and air travellers. Over half (56%) of the car users and 45% of the air travellers surveyed are willing to reduce...

By 2050, aviation threatens to become the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions due to rapidly increasing demand. Given the disruption in air travel due to Covid-19, we are faced with a unique opportunity to examine whether reductions in air travel can be sustained beyond the crisis...

Concerns about rising energy prices tend to occur in times of economic expansion, to disappear in times of recession. A recurring fear is that, in the long run, real energy prices will trend upwards. This paper presents evidence from five hundred years of prices of energy sources for the United...