Green  House is a think tank founded in 2011.  It aims to lead the development of green thinking in the UK. ​ Read more about Green House

New Green House reports

Trade and Investment Requirements for Zero Carbon
By Peter Sims and Jonathan Essex - August 2020
This Analysis of UK trade highlights how we can stop trade and investment locking in carbon emissions. A toolkit of key pointers is introduced to aid policymakers to shift trade and investment choices from global growth to facing up to the climate emergency.
Urban Planning Hong Kong Style: the High-Rise Way
Rethinking our Vision of Sustainable Cities
By Maya de Souza - August 2020
Maya de Souza draws on her experience of living in Hong Kong to argue in favour of high-rise, high density cities. ​
Another Brexit is possible - Strategy for Brexit in the era of COVID-19 and climate chaos:
Build resilience and security through greater national self-sufficiency together with global cooperation
By Rupert Read and Emma Dawnay - June 2020
This report argues that Brexit is an opportunity to build greater resilience by increasing local, regional, and national self-sufficiency together with increasing the way we cooperate globally to tackle global crises. 
What would a UK climate emergency plan that faces up to climate reality look like? 
By Jonathan Essex - May 2020
This report explores how an emergency plan for the whole economy requires a shift in approach and thinking so that the climate sciences is reflected in sufficiently honest and courageous responses. Above all we all need to play our part. Starting now. 

COVID-19 and Facing up to Climate Reality
The recording of our on-line discussion, ,with John Barry, Anne Chapman, John Foster, and Reinhard Loske held on 6th June is now available.  Your can download the papers and see information about speakers here.  
Since the discussion we have published two new gases on this theme:
The UK government economic policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic:
Three possible lessons for climate emergency planning by Andrew Mearman
Building Back Differently: A Climate Emergency Recovery from COVID-19
by Jonathan Essex
What now for Green Politics? ​​
What would a serious Green political movement now be doing in face of the climate emergency? An on-line debate with Rupert Read and John Foster that took place on 24th April. You can download the 'chat' from this debate here.

Climate Jobs explainer 

Climate Emergency Conference
​Presentations, briefing papers and videos of this conference, held in London on 14th September 2019 are available here.  

Recent publications

Another Brexit is possible  
Strategy for Brexit in the era of COVID-19 and climate chaos:
Build resilience and security through greater national self-sufficiency together with global cooperation
By Rupert Read and Emma Dawnay
What would a UK climate emergency plan that faces up to climate reality look like? 
By Jonathan Essex
Extinction, rebellion and Extinction Rebellion, ​by John Foster - an extended review of two recent publications by Rupert Read and one by Roger Hallam, available to download as a pdf on our 'Gases' page and as a Green Read.
Green Reads
Latest additions to our book review page: 
​Jonathan Essex on Absolute Zero Carbon Britain a review of reports by the Centre for Alternative Technology and UK FIRES. 
Anne Chapman on Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown,
Robert  Magowan on Global Green Politics by Peter Newell. 
Prashant Vaze on Managing without Growth by Peter Victor;
Anne Chapman on Wilding by Isabella Tree.
By Green House People
A book by our former chair, Rupert Read, on the history and present state of Extinction Rebellion from its inception in 2018 until the COVID-19 pandemic, has been published by the Simplicity Institute. Extinction Rebellion: Insights From The Inside  is available to download for free (or pay what one wishes) here.  A print version is also available see here..
Presentation on Climate Resilient Communities by Nadine Andrews for the online event, Designing for a Changing Climate, 12 June 2020.
Andrew Mearman has co-authored a paper with his 11- year old goddaughter, Elsie Luna about her climate activism, Learning to Rebel .
Our new Core Group member, Robert Macgowan calls for time to be put at the heart of policital economy in this article in the Green European Journal. 
Jonathan Essex was a co-author of a report for Catherine Rowett, MEP for the East of England, published in January 2020, Energising the East: An energy transformation plan for the climate emergency
This, our latest book, is available to order here.  It takes as its starting point the fact that the climate crisis is going to get much worse whatever we now do. The book explores what this means and how we might be able to confront escalating climate chaos while not giving up hope. READ MORE
Listen to the audio of our London launch event.
In late 2019 Green House adopted a strategy for taking forward our work on facing up to climate reality.  You can download it here.
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