Insight
Mitigating climate change: Electricity and beyond
This Insight describes the progress made in decarbonising the electricity sector and explores the shifting focus to mitigation in other sectors, where progress has been more limited.
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Climate change solutions: The role of nature
This Insight sets out what is meant by nature-based solutions in the context of climate change. It also looks at ongoing efforts to integrate them into climate change policies.
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Insight
Climate change solutions: The role of technology
This Insight outlines key discussions around the role of technology in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Green finance: Mobilising investment for green growth
This Insight explores the three objectives of the Government's 2019 Green Finance Strategy: 'greening finance', 'financing green', and 'capturing the opportunity'.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: Support for household finances
This Commons Library briefing paper outlines the measures introduced by the Government, and other authorities, to support household finances during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.
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Research Briefing
Fisheries: UK-EU future relationship negotiations
The UK is in the process of negotiating its future relationship with the EU, including fisheries, following Brexit.
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Research Briefing
Brexit: energy and climate change
A House of Commons Library Briefing Paper discussing key energy and climate change policy in relation to the negotiations on the future relationship between the EU and UK.
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Research Briefing
The UK-EU future relationship negotiations: Level playing field
The so-called level playing field - rules on competition, state aid, taxation, labour and environmental standards, and climate change - are one of the main causes of disagreement between the UK and EU in the negotiations on their future partnership. This paper explains the commitments that both parties are proposing in these areas in order to come to a deal.
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Research Briefing
The UK-EU future relationship negotiations: summary of positions
The tables in this paper provide a summary of the UK and EU positions in the future relationship negotiations, based on their proposed draft treaty texts and other publicly available statements
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Research Briefing
Water: non-household retail competition
A short Commons Library Briefing paper providing an update on the water retail market for non-household customers in England. It includes information on support for business customers during the coronavirus outbreak in each nation.
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Research Briefing
The UK-EU future relationship: the March 2020 EU draft treaty and negotiations update
This paper provides an update on the first three rounds of negotiations on the future UK-EU relationship and analysis of the draft new partnership treaty tabled by the EU in March 2020
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Research Briefing
UK aid: frequently asked questions
What is aid? What is the UN 0.7% aid target and why has the UK adopted it? Which government departments spend UK aid? What impact does UK aid have? What will be the impact of Brexit on UK aid? These and other questions are answered in an accessible way in this briefing paper.
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Research Briefing
UK dairy industry statistics
Key statistics and current trends for the UK dairy industry, including farm-gate prices, UK herd size, production, international trade and domestic consumption.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus Act: Food supply
The Coronavirus Act provides powers to require information about food supply chains. The Government has said that it is collaborating with the food sector to manage the risk of disruption to supply chains, but that the Act provides powers in case requests for voluntary provision of information were not to be complied with in the future.
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Research Briefing
Shale gas and fracking
A House of Commons Library Briefing Paper providing an overview of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale in the UK, including the latest UK Government moratorium for England, the approach in the devolved Administrations, the regulatory regime (petroleum exploration and development licences, environmental, planning, health and safety), and information on seismic events.
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