Laurie leads Mission Discovery at Nesta that uses intelligence about the future to change practice today. The Mission Discovery team identifies and investigates emerging trends, ideas, technologies ...

Developing a way to measure and identify green jobs to help grow the sector. This project aimed to develop a way of measuring the greenness of online job adverts. Without a clear definition of what ...

Instead of placing big bets on assumptions about ideas when they are first proposed, policies need to be reviewed and improved throughout their development via a process of test and learn. This ...

Richard is a fully qualified mechanical engineer and has a wealth of experience working with and testing innovative heating control technology and 21st-century boiler technology. This report ...

This report explores future automation and creativity in the UK and US workforces and finds that creative jobs will be much more resistant to automation than most other jobs. This report explores ...

Dr Dolly van Tullekan is an independent policy consultant, advisor and visiting researcher at Cambridge University’s MRC Epidemiology Unit. Henry Dimbleby is co-founder and managing partner of Bramble ...

This report investigates the transformation towards a greener UK economy and the implications for employment across sectors and regions.

In order for the UK Government to meet its legally binding net-zero targets, fossil fuel heating systems will need to be replaced with heat pumps and other low-carbon heating systems in all homes ...

www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-electricity-to-gas-price-ratio-explained-how-a-green-ratio-would-make-bills-cheaper-and-greener/ ...

Most people live in homes that burn gas or other fossil fuels to provide heat and hot water. To reach net zero emissions by 2050, we have to switch to greener heating. Heat pumps, which run on ...

Tom Forth is Head of Data at The Open Data Institute Leeds and a Director and co-founder of The Data City. The UK’s geographical imbalances in economic performance are exacerbated by regional ...

Dimitris joined Nesta’s sustainable future mission as an analyst after graduating from his MSc. The UK Government has set an ambitious goal to install 600,000 thousand heat pumps by 2028. The Climate ...