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Green Alliance has been inspiring and influencing change since 1979

These are our recent achievements

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Reforming transport appraisal

Green Alliance’s work on reforming transport decision making (see Decision making for sustainable transport and The right route) has led the Department for Transport (DfT) to revise how it assesses transport schemes. Recent changes announced by the DfT mean that lower carbon transport options are now more likely to get funding. Officials acknowledged that Green Alliance’s work led directly to this change.

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Securing the Fourth Carbon Budget, May 2011

We coordinated a letter from 15 environmental groups to David Cameron, urging him to step into the row between his ministers and accept the Committee on Climate Change's Fourth Carbon Budget, and he listened.
As our director Matthew Spencer wrote at the time, it was a good day for evidence-based policy.

 
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Taking the lead on localism and the environment, 2011

As the localism and Big Society agendas took shape under the coalition government, Green Alliance initiated the national conversation on what these new agendas will mean for the environment. We organised Power Shift – the UK’s first major conference on sustainability, localism and the Big Society in February 2011, and a Catalyst debate on localism with an expert panel and audience in July 2011. 

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Shaping Our Future task force, 2009-10

We acted as the chair and secretariat for the joint third sector and ministerial task force in 2009-10. This cross-sector initiative was instrumental in furthering debate and action to support the mainstreaming of climate change across non-environmental civil society.  

 
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Working together on waste

Our unique consortium of businesses from the waste, manufacturing and retail sectors made the case directly to the Treasury for higher landfill tax. Hearing unexpected voices calling for the same thing was crucial to the tax being increased in the 2007 budget, with plans for it to reach £72 per tonne by 2013. 
In the run up to the recent Waste Review, we successfully persuaded the government to commit to exploring restrictions for a range of biodegradable materials.  

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Action on Sustainable Heat

We brought together over 40 businesses and voluntary organisations to push for action on heat. As a result the government committed to a new national heat strategy in 2009 alongside a package of new financial incentives. The Government announced details of the Renewable Heat Incentive in March 2011, the first financial support scheme for renewable heat of its kind in the world. 

 
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Clever thinking on Smart Meters

Green Alliance has been the main, and often the only, environmental organisation working to ensure that the environmental potential of smart meters is maximised. We have been central to finding common ground between competing interests in the current round of work, and secured a big win in 2009, ensuring that a key element of the roll out plans did not get dropped in the face of industry pressure.

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A clean coal commitment

Green Alliance has been a leading voice in the UK and Europe promoting carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. We helped to secure a dramatic shift in UK climate change policy in March 2009, with a government commitment to new regulation and new funding for up to four CCS demonstration projects. 

 
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Influence in Europe

Our proposals for an EU budget for climate security were the focus for discussions in Paris, Berlin, Prague, Warsaw and Brussels in 2008. We were invited by Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to speak at a major European conference, and we are now an influential player in the public and private debate on the future of the EU budget. 

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Think Tank of the Year, 2009

In 2009 we were named Think Tank of the Year in the Public Affairs News Awards: 

"Green Alliance has earned a formidable reputation in the political and business communities, and the voluntary sector. Few (if any) organisations have relationships of trust with such a diverse group of interested parties."  

 
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Comment & analysis

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What is energy for?, by Rebecca Willis on openDemocracy

7 Feb 2012

BP missed the boat on solar energy, guest post by Ben Caldecott of Climate Change Capital

6 Feb 2012

Why BP’s withdrawal from solar is no surprise, guest post by Charlie Kronick of Greenpeace

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Green Alliance in the news

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Energy & environmental management: Bank of England warned against creating a "carbon bubble" 

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