Why getting data infrastructure right is so important to any green Covid-19 recovery plan
As well as vital physical infrastructure, we need the right data infrastructure to navigate the climate crisis – and particularly […]
Author: Nick Tyrone
What are UK and Irish politicians doing on net-zero Covid-19 economic recovery?
On Thursday, 26 November, Project Cygnus put on an event on the topic of what the main political parties in […]
Covid-19 recovery: what would be the environmental impact of working from home if it became the norm?
In a YouGov poll taken in between the 2nd and 6th of September 2020, people were asked about working conditions […]
Project Cygnus lays out the four criteria for choosing green Covid recovery policies
Project Cygnus is working towards finding the best solutions to enable the economic recovery from Covid-19 to be as sustainable […]
What are the three policies to make the economic recovery from Covid-19 sustainable?
Yesterday (29 October), the Project Cygnus team held a virtual event asking for the three policies needed to make the […]
Across the political spectrum, there is a lot of consensus on how to tackle climate change
The climate change debate has often been painted as something that concerns the left of British politics much more than […]
The Covid-19 crisis has reduced emissions. But they are still too high
A narrative that has emerged since the start of the Covid-19 crisis is that lockdown has been a good thing […]
How small businesses and young people have been hit by the Covid crisis
The full scale of the economic impact of the Covid crisis upon the United Kingdom is still difficult to fully […]
How the UK made carbon emissions decrease massively over the last thirty years – and why that isn’t as good news as it sounds
Since 1990, the United Kingdom has reduced carbon emissions within its borders by 39% and all greenhouse gas emissions by […]
Why the government’s £350 million green Covid-19 recovery plan is deeply inadequate
In the second quarter of 2020, the UK economy shrunk by over 20% due to measures required to contain the […]
Project Cygnus event on September 24th – how do we make the Covid recovery as green as possible?
On Thursday, September 24th, Project Cygnus put on its debut event, one structured around the theme of the entire project: […]