Projects | Climate change
Consumer understanding of green terms
Started: October 2009
Due for completion: 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. ...
Evaluation of the Big Green Challenge Plus
Started: July 2009
Due for completion: 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 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....
Evaluation of the Big Green Challenge
Started: September 2007
Due for completion: December 2010
NESTA
A three-year project to conduct an ongoing and formative evaluation of NESTA’s ‘Big Green Challenge’ programme...
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.......
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...
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....
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...
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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Dear Sir/Madam
I reacted badly this week when, in response to a tender document I’d prepared, I received an email saying “Thank you for your submission, but I regret to inform you that you have been unsuccessful in your application…” It wasn’t the No that upset me - it’s an occupational hazard of competitive tendering, after all, and [...]
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Time to buy the Sustainable Development Commission?
News that the government has decided to withdraw its funding for the Sustainable Development Commission is prompting comment in a number of locations. I particularly enjoyed George Monbiot’s observation that the £1.9mn being saved is no more than ‘a rounding error’ on the Trident missile invoice. Having once been a Commissioner on the London Sustainable Development [...]
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Marketing to the marketers will be key for green claims guidance
Our research for Defra on the prevalence and content of green claims was published recently. The study – along with our work on consumer understanding of green terms – is feeding into a revision of Defra’s green claims guidance for marketers, the consultation for which closed in June. While researching a possible follow up story, one [...]