‘Setting the Challenge’ seeks to explore new approaches to addressing our greatest challenges. UN Secretary General António Guterres has declared, “The state of the climate is in a state of emergency. Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits. Every key indicator is flashing red.”[1] Our response to the climate crisis is falling far short…
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In 2025, the Centre for Energy Ethics-University of St Andrews and Greener Vision partnered on an exhibition and series of roundtable discussions exploring new approaches to addressing anthropogenic climate change. This report by Claire Haigh summarises the key conclusions. The goal of limiting heating to 1.5°C is dead[i]. The 10 hottest years in history have…
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The Tabula Project: A Blueprint for Change sets out how our thinking needs to change if we are to rise to the scale of the climate challenge. The Tabula Project is a 30-year creative endeavour that aims to provide a new perspective on the mind. The project started with the assumption that we won’t solve…
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TRANSFORMING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ENVIRONMENT ON WHICH WE DEPEND The Centre for Energy Ethics – University of St Andrews and Greener Vision are partnering to present an exhibition of The Tabula Project and a series of discussions to explore innovative approaches to addressing anthropogenic climate change. The programme focuses on one of the most…
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Greener Vision: Pathways to Net Zero calls for a new approach to the climate crisis and radical shift for decarbonising transport. Transport is the fastest growing source of global greenhouse GHG emissions and the UK’s biggest polluting sector. Emissions from road transport – 95% of the UK’s transport total – have hardly changed since 1990. Vehicles…
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‘Road pricing’ is one of the most talked about non-starter policies in the transport sector. Debate on changing how we pay for driving reaches back over half a century. The transition to electric vehicles may now suggest winds of change. Yet there are no signs that a change to how we pay to drive is…
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2023 was the hottest year on record. This year a record 15 national heat records have been broken so far. But our response to the climate crisis still falls far short of the scale of the challenge. How can we approach climate policy differently? How can we prevent short-term thinking and political expediency from driving…
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This report by Claire Haigh investigates ways in which our approach to tackling the climate crisis needs to change. Building on consultations with more than 700 local leaders, businesses, academics, environmental and user groups, Greener Vision: The Art of Seeing contends that we won’t solve our most intractable problems with the same thinking that created…
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Climate change is an existential threat which to varying extents we have become strangely accustomed to living with. 2022 was our hottest summer on record, with an unprecedented number of heat-related deaths, wildfires and infrastructure disruptions. 2023 looks set to be still worse. But our response is not yet commensurate to the scale of the…
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This paper sets out a detailed account of the Pathways to Net Zero – Delivering Net Zero Road Transport roundtable discussion that was held on 6th June 2023. Transport is the biggest polluting sector of the UK economy. At 90% of all domestic transport emissions in the UK, road transport is a major contributor to…
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Our thinking needs to change if we are to address the scale of the climate challenge. This report by Claire Haigh summarizes the key insights and conclusions from the Pathways to Net Zero series of reports and roundtable discussions that were published and held in 2022 . The central proposition Pathways to Net Zero is…
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This paper sets out a detailed account of the Pathways to Net Zero – The Future We Want roundtable discussion that was held on 14th October 2022. Building on the first Pathways to Net Zero Series in March 2022, Pathways to Net Zero Series 2 in October 2022 sought to identify solutions to deliver emissions…
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