Environment and Society Centre

The Sustainability Accelerator is a major initiative to increase the speed and scale of the transition to a sustainable, inclusive future.

Together, Chatham House and ICEED are monitoring trends and evaluating key issues around carbon neutrality and energy security.

Examining how the invasion of Ukraine will influence a transition to an equitable low-carbon economy, and what this means for governance institutions operating within a new international context.

This project explores the development of taxonomies globally, with a particular focus on circular economy elements in the EU and UK taxonomies.

Chatham House worked with the UK COP26 Presidency to convene business leaders to explore innovative solutions to accelerate climate action and to share a collective vision for a 1.5°C world.

The Environment and Society Centre has developed research and dialogue on pressing issues for extractives producing countries since the early 2000s.

Chatham House is a partner in this UNIDO project, which aims to support enterprises within selected value chains to adopt circular economy practices.

Chatham House is working with Practical Action and UNHCR on implementing the Renewable Energy for Refugees (RE4R) project in Rwanda and Jordan.

Chatham House is organizing monthly briefings to discuss the most pressing climate issues with UK and international government officials and experts.

Chatham House, in collaboration with partners, aims to provide a strong evidence base of the opportunities and trade-offs in a transition from linear to circular economy models.

Galvanizing a practically-focused and policy-relevant discussion of the most complex and challenging questions relating to BECCS.

This event series explores key risks and opportunities for the private sector of the ongoing rapid transformation of the energy sector and the new industrial revolution.

Achieving the Paris Agreement’s climate goal of keeping temperature increases ‘well below’ 2°C requires environmental leadership to rapidly emerge within the world’s centres of economic policymaking.

The importance of mobilising investment into clean energy is centre stage as the world seeks to implement the Paris Agreement and deliver clean, secure access to energy.

This project aims to analyse the wide range of approaches taken to encourage healthy and environmentally sustainable diets.

This project aims to provide an analysis of disruption risks in global food trade and develop recommendations for preventative and responsive action.

The 2020 forum focuses on international cooperation, subsidies, transparency, gender, new technologies, and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in Southeast Asia.

The project aims to broaden and deepen understanding of the geostrategic realities in, and outlook for, the Indo-Pacific region.

Promoting knowledge sharing and policy dialogue to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss and natural resource depletion.

This project aims to make agriculture and food production in sub-Saharan Africa more productive, sustainable and resilient to climate change.

This project explores the capacities and strategies used by non-state actors to exert influence on the global climate agenda.

As a key input into concrete, the most widely used construction material in the world, cement is a major source of CO2 emissions.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative could be a powerful vehicle for promoting the global development of sustainable infrastructure and investment.

The volume of natural resources traded globally has increased over 60% since the turn of the century, reflecting new economic and geopolitical realities.

This project aims to analyse the worldwide impact on climate and forests of the use of wood for electricity generation and heat in modern, non-traditional, technologies.

This research aims to generate new thinking on a range of underexplored issues including the intersections between climate change and conflict.

Chatham House is working with the UK Department for International Development, Energy 4 Impact, and a consortium of other expert organizations on a ground-breaking new project.

Recent food crises have raised serious questions about the ability of the humanitarian system to respond effectively to Early Warning Systems.

A collaborative network of over 30 countries built on trust and peer-to-peer exchanges.

Water, food and energy are central to human well-being. Yet the waste of these vital resources is ubiquitous – on both the production and consumption sides.

An international collaboration to support ambitious targets to reduce energy intensity in GCC Countries.

This project will assess the potential for developing Low Carbon Zones in Africa: areas with policy and institutional frameworks designed to enable climate compatible development.

In partnership with the Glasgow University Media Group, researchers from Chatham House will review public understanding and behaviour in relation to meat and dairy consumption and its impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

Forests make a vital contribution to tackling climate change and supporting sustainable development. However they are under threat from illegal logging and deforestation.

This project examines the challenges facing the extractive industries in complex operating environments.

This project explores the consequences of Brexit for energy and climate policy and politics.

This project explores the shifting global political economy of key resources (land, water, energy, minerals and food) through analysing their inter-linkages in production, use and trade.

An evidence-based perspective on climate-change risks will ensure that emissions reduction and resilience strategies in China and globally are better informed.

Cascading climate risks: towards adaptive and resilient European societies.