Starting a hydrogen economy on the east coast – NIC response

Read here 15th March 2017 Response to the call for evidence in the National Infrastructure Commission technology review Sandbag’s vision for 2018: To create four hydrogen supply hubs on the east coast of England. This allows for innovation in new hydrogen...

Building UK industrial CCS infrastructure – NIC response

13th March 2017 Sandbag’s response to the National Infrastructure Commission’s call for evidence on technology. Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is an emerging technology for reducing emissions which will be essential for infrastructure...

Improving the 5th UK carbon budget

This briefing represents Sandbag’s official written evidence to the Energy and Climate Change parliamentary select committee inquiry on the 5th carbon budget of the UK Climate Change Act.* It details our five key recommendations to improve the 5th carbon budget...

The case for a net zero Climate Change Act target

Guest authored with Suzanna Hinson, Stephen Tindale and Andy Kerr. This report was commissioned by Sandbag to explore why the UK, in the light of the Paris Agreement at COP21 in December, could consider an additional ‘net zero emissions’ long-term goal for the Climate...
Bank of England bill – response

Bank of England bill – response

Response by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and Sandbag to the HM Treasury Technical Consultation on the Bank of England bill (Consultation closes 11th September 2015)