The Energy Company Obligation - often called ECO - is a long-running government scheme that aims to reduce fuel poverty and carbon emissions by improving the energy efficiency of homes. ECO is a major ...

Obesity rates have doubled in the last 30 years. This is because our food environment - how food is promoted, advertised and displayed to us - drives people to over-consume. 1. Large businesses should ...

Research suggests AI could boost the UK economy by up to £400 billion by 2030. You may be sceptical of such grand promises, but this much is certain: any economic gains from AI will depend on ...

Exploring how innovative business and finance models could enable consumers to install a heat pump for zero or boiler-parity upfront cost. One of the largest barriers to heat pump adoption is the high ...

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This paper explores the current state of the heat pump market from a skills, training and productivity perspective and suggests ways of increasing the supply chain’s capacity to install heat pumps.

Most people live in homes that burn gas or other fossil fuels to provide heat and hot water. To reach net zero emissions by 2050, we have to switch to greener heating. Heat pumps, which run on ...

www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-electricity-to-gas-price-ratio-explained-how-a-green-ratio-would-make-bills-cheaper-and-greener/ ...

In order for the UK Government to meet its legally binding net-zero targets, fossil fuel heating systems will need to be replaced with heat pumps and other low-carbon heating systems in all homes ...

Stian led Nesta's Policy and Research team. His research interests included the measurement of innovation and its effects on productivity, the role of high-growth businesses in the eco… By reminding ...

Kirsten was an Executive Director at Nesta and led Nesta’s Research, Analysis and Policy team. There are many ways to help bring good ideas to life. Nesta works to uncover, develop and test, new ways ...

Instead of placing big bets on assumptions about ideas when they are first proposed, policies need to be reviewed and improved throughout their development via a process of test and learn. This ...