Independent reviews can be a useful tool in the policymaking process. This report looks at why reviews are commissioned and how they have been set up and run. It makes recommendations for reviewers and officials on how to run a review, and for government on effectively commissioning them and systematically learning the lessons from past...

The impacts of climate change are beginning to be felt, but successive governments have failed to prepare the United Kingdom to adapt effectively. This report looks at how government could move adaptation up the agenda and improve UK climate resilience.

Net zero is a huge national mission in the United Kingdom that will require policies from the whole-of-government to pull in the same direction. This report, which draws on a roundtable held in February 2022, explores how that objective might be achieved.

The UK government’s response to the energy price crisis right will be critical to preserving political and public support for net zero policies. This report sets out seven steps the government needs to take – to ensure momentum on climate change is maintained in 2022 and to build on 2021’s ambitious net zero strategy.

This report calls for a genuine public discussion on the potential of tax as a policy instrument alongside spending, regulation and other interventions to address the United Kingdom's transition to net zero.