Although the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage across the globe stalling economies, incomes and mobility the crisis provides a chance to re-evaluate and re-imagine our collective future. Despite profound uncertainty about both the course of the pandemic and its long-term ramifications for society, decisions are being taken to address the national social and economic impacts of the crisis.
Building on our report with Green Alliance from 2019 ‘The Route to Clean Growth’ Localis’s 2021 workstream Clearing the path – mapping a local route to hydrogen power will examine how local actors in our regions are readying their places for the game-changing potential of hydrogen.
But how well prepared is the local state to cope with the issues of expensive extraction, issues of Carbon Capture Usage and Storage for hydrogen producing using oil and natural gas and the high levels of technological interdependence?
We want to examine how hydrogen technology fits within current place-based policies for clean growth and in the context of the government’s full ambit of clean growth plans. For example, does of policy and regulatory background give our local areas a levelled-up playing field to grow clean at broader scale?
The national political context: There is much riding for the Government on the back of its ‘Building Back Better’ agenda as a ubiquitous mantra. Equally, having set in law the world’s most ambitious climate change target to cut emissions more than three quarters of the way by 2035 compared to 1990 levels, government departments are […]
Although the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage across the globe stalling economies, incomes and mobility the crisis provides a chance to re-evaluate and re-imagine our collective future. Despite profound uncertainty about both the course of the pandemic and its long-term ramifications for society, decisions are being taken to address the national social and economic impacts […]
The Plan for Growth, released in March 2021, is the UK government’s new plan setting out its view on how to recover from the pandemic through ‘building back better’ and ‘levelling up’ across the UK. It sets out government objectives to ‘support economic growth through investment in infrastructure, skills, and innovation’. And serves as a […]
Local areas have seized the initiative on climate change. Two hundred and thirty local and combined authorities in England had declared climate emergencies by July 2019. The challenge now is for local policy makers to translate this momentum into co-ordinated action across all areas of their local economies, including energy, transport, buildings, land use and […]