Projects | Climate change
Corporate sustainability support
Started: November 2010
Due for completion: December 2011
PwC UK
PwC’s vision to become the iconic professional services firm includes a significant focus on sustainability. To this end, Brook Lyndhurst was commissioned to provide support to PwC's environmental and social sustainability programme in the UK....
Evaluation of the Greener Living Fund
Started: February 2009
Due for completion: June 2011
Defra
Brook Lyndhurst has been appointed to evaluate the performance of Defra’s Greener Living Fund (GLF). The fund, launched in November 2008, will provide over £6 million in grants to eight delivery partners from the third sector....
Review of the Scottish Climate Challenge Fund
Started: March 2010
Ended: June 2011
Scottish Government
Brook Lyndhurst is carrying out in-depth research with 20 projects funded by the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund in order to better understand critical success factors in community-based climate change initiatives....
Evaluation of the Big Green Challenge Plus
Started: July 2009
Ended: December 2010
NESTA
Brook Lyndhurst is reviewing the work of the projects supported by NESTA's Big Green Challenge Plus in order to draw out key lessons for policy and future funds of this kind....
Evaluation of the Big Green Challenge
Started: September 2007
Ended: December 2010
NESTA
A three-year project to conduct an ongoing and formative evaluation of NESTA’s ‘Big Green Challenge’ programme...
Reducing emissions through behavioural change - Scoping pilot programmes in Wales
Started: May 2010
Ended: October 2010
Welsh Assembly Government
Brook Lyndhurst is working with the Energy Saving Trust to provide advice to the Welsh Assembly Government on developing pilot interventions aimed at changing behaviour to improve domestic energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions...
Consumer understanding of green terms
Started: October 2009
Ended: March 2010
Defra
An investigation into consumer responses to, and understanding of, the terms used to refer to 'green' issues, from recycling to air miles; and from carbon footprints to water neutrality. ...
Assessment of green claims in marketing
Started: March 2009
Ended: October 2009
Defra
A review of 'green' claims in marketing from 2006 to 2009, taking in both statistical data and the perspective of the advertising and marketing community.......
Climate change and local policy: South London Partnership
Started: September 2008
Ended: February 2009
South London Partnership
Investigation into the kind of climate change projects and programmes that were operating in South London and consideration of how climate change issues might best be integrated into the sub-region’s policy priorities...
A review of the Environmental Action Fund (EAF)
Started: January 2005
Ended: February 2009
Defra
A review of the Environmental Action Fund, a three year initiative supporting voluntary and community sector groups to further the government's sustainable development objectives...
Per capita carbon footprints
Started: January 2008
Ended: December 2008
Defra
An investigation into public responses to the provision of personal carbon information through carbon calculators and, in particular, Defra’s “Act On CO2” calculator....
Evaluation of the Climate Challenge Fund
Started: January 2008
Ended: October 2008
Defra / Decc
An evaluation of DECC's Climate Challenge Fund, which supported 83 climate change projects from across England with funds totalling £8.5 million between 2006 and 2008...
London's food sector greenhouse gases
Started: January 2008
Ended: June 2008
Greater London Authority
This report builds on the Mayor's 2007 Climate Change Action Plan and the London Food Strategy (2006) by quantifying the contribution of London's food sector to the capital's greenhouse gas emissions...
Measuring Londoners’ attitudes to climate change and evaluating the impacts of initiatives to shift them
Started: September 2007
Ended: March 2008
Greater London Authority and the LSx
A project to review the current ‘state of play’ regarding ABC1 and BAME attitudes to climate change, assist the development of messaging for use through different communications channels, and evaluate the extent to which these initiatives have changed Londoners’ attitudes to climate change....
Climate Challenge: What must cities look like to meet the challenge of climate change?
Started: June 2006
Ended: March 2008
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
An exploration of some of the ways in which urban areas in the UK might adapt in order to meet carbon emissions reduction targets...
Strategic sustainability support
Started: April 2007
Ended: March 2008
Quintain Estates and Development PLC
Consultancy support to set up, develop and help implement Quintain Estates & Developments’ sustainability strategy....
Public understanding of sustainable energy consumption in the home
Started: February 2007
Ended: September 2007
Defra
A qualitative research project into public attitudes to domestic energy consumption, involving focus groups, in-home energy audits and follow-up, in-depth interviews. Analysis of attitudes across different segments of the population enabled us to make policy recommendations to Defra across five key behaviour goals (better energy management in the home, installing domestic micro-generation, insulation products & energy efficient appliances and switching to a green energy tariff). ...
UK energy and the built environment: A fact sheet
Started: June 2007
Ended: July 2007
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Brook Lyndhurst developed, for RICS, a fact-sheet detailing energy production and consumption in the UK, including information on trends and a particular focus on the use of renewables....
Brook Lyndhurst Blog
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Brook Lyndhurst in action: Coppicing for London Wetland Centre
The main activity for this year’s corporate volunteer day was coppicing. For those who don’t know – which at the time included a couple of us, who met the news of our activity with blank faces - coppicing is to “cut back (a tree or shrub) to ground level periodically to stimulate growth.” On the morning of [...]
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How to get ‘generation snooze’ to use fewer resources
This was originally a guest post from Brook Lyndhurst on the Green Alliance’s Green Living Blog: http://greenlivingblog.org.uk/ To use our resources more sustainably, do we ‘just need to wake up’? This is the suggestion from Generation Awake, an EU campaign fronted by three singing shopping bags, which was launched last month with the aim of making [...]
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Brook Lyndhurst success at CIWM awards
It is not often that we at Brook Lyndhurst leave our spreadsheets behind and dress up for an awards ceremony, but we were proud and honoured to be informed that our Household Waste Prevention – A Review Of Evidence paper was to be awarded the James Jackson medal at the CIWM Professional Awards 2011. The [...]