Wow OK, so the UK's land sector is now a source, not a sink of greenhouse gas emissions Needs to be a sink if UK is going to reach net-zero… What happened? 🧵

Fabric Fifth… 🧵 We need to rapidly reduce emissions, lower energy bills as well as deliver comfortable and healthy homes, so where should we be prioritising spending our money in the UK?

As COP28 approaches, we've published a new report for The Prince's Trust which suggests young people’s lack of interest in green jobs could be a serious risk to the UK meeting its Net Zero targets. publicfirst.co.uk/generation-gre… A few highlights from our poll:

LCEF will be growing in 2024! We're looking for a programme manager for nature and land-use: w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.asp… And a programme officer leading on candidate and MP engagement: w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.asp… Come and join our small yet dynamic team.

🔴 'Contradictory' and 'Self-Defeating': MPs Slam Government for Building New Houses in High-Flood Risk Areas As Chancellor, Rishi Sunak reduced the budget for flood protection reports David Hencke bylinetimes.com/2024/01/17/con…

Come work with me! Interested in how we use data and opinion research to answer thorny energy + environment political/policy questions? Apply! Grads welcome, ideally 1-2 years experience.

7 quarters of falling living standards - something that has not happened since records began almost 70 years ago. Our country is in a deep, deep mess.

Fans of a) skills policy and b) net zero might be interested in our event next Thursday on tackling the green skills challenge, where we'll be presenting our latest research on young people's attitudes to green jobs - details below! eventbrite.com/e/pf-talks-tac…

New: London has a shortage of homes, but it doesn't have a shortage of golf courses. In fact, London’s 95 golf courses take up more land than the entire borough of Brent. Here's the case for building on some of them. samdumitriu.com/p/homes-or-golf

🚨Change to how we run political qualitative research at Public First 🚨 Having spent the last year getting our Immersive Research team up and running in the UK and the US I am absolutely thrilled that we are now publicly launching to clients. (1/6)

Or at the very least introduce biodiversity net gain requirements for existing golf courses !

We're looking for a policy analyst (our equivalent to a graduate level role) to come and work with me as we expand our higher education portfolio. It will be fast paced and fun! Please do share - happy to discuss more senior roles for the right candidate. publicfirst.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

Almost exactly a week ago, the 2024 UK General Election was officially called. Here's a new post, digging into... How do (British) voters *feel* about the economy? (And what does that mean in this election?) pfdatablog.com/blog/how-do-vo…

Big focus from Lab on GB Energy today - a new publicly owned company, part of the clean power mission yes, but also central to growth - build stuff faster, ensure people / the state benefit directly.

There's nothing in the Public First General Election policy tracker to suggest a serious or urgent response to the levels of hardship in the UK. Manifestos this week, so maybe that will change. Millions of people will hope so. bit.ly/3VAwVOR

This has been a long time in the making. There’s been a lot of commentary (and ambiguity) about what GB Energy can and should do. My view, one closely shared by industry - GBE’s mission is to accelerate the deployment of clean generation, whilst making a return.

Great to see government launch GB Energy today. gov.uk/government/new… In our work at Public First for RenewableUK we were clear that a clear instruction from the PM was the first action required to ensure GBE is delivering this parliament.

Our breakout room on green skills kicking off now, with Sue Ferns , Anna Taylor and Adam Berman

.Bertie Wnek and I spent 5 days observing people in Bolton pubs. Why did we do it? And what did we learn? (1/10)