Exploring how finance can better support Grassroots Innovations (GIs), community-led solutions for net-zero transitions, we examine finance’s role in the case of UK community energy (CE) across three ‘diffusion pathways’: niche replication (growth in the numbers of projects), individual...

This paper explores the role of coalition building in the implementation of renewable-energy policy. Applying a discourse analysis framework to wind-energy development in the North West of England, two strong coalitions operating within the wind-energy development arena were identified. By...

This paper explores the response by members of the lay public to the prospect of an onshore CO2 pipeline through their locality as part of a proposed CCS development and presents results from deliberative Focus Groups held along a proposed pipeline route. Although there is a reasonable level of...

In 2004, the UK's aviation industry emitted an estimated 9.8 MtC; a figure that, without direct intervention, is projected to rise to 16-21 MtC by 2030 according to the UK Government. As the UK's 60% carbon-reduction target approaches, so aviation is likely to become a dominant...

chapter 1 Flying into Heavy Weather -- chapter 2 Aviation: Past, Present and Future -- chapter 3 Climate Change and Cumulative Emissions -- chapter 4 Opportunities for Aviation -- chapter 5 Climate and Aviation Policy -- chapter 6 Comparative Assessment -- chapter 7 Aviation in the Wider Energy...