Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast.

We're the charity in think tank that is all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.

I'm Katarina Brandmeier, head of climate policy Green Alliance, and I lead our work on low-carbon future.

Reports by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change have come thick and fast in the past year,

with the most recent on mitigation warning that we are significantly off track in our efforts to tackle climate change,

and that global economies should act rapidly to curb carbon emissions and move to a green economy in order to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

In this episode, we hear from one of the co-authors of the report, Nick Eyre,

about the findings of the report, what they mean for action on climate change, and about UK

progress on this agenda. There is a real risk that people will die of cold homes next winter.

Nothing we can do to energy efficiency and the very short term can completely alleviate that.

So I think there will need to be measures on the income side as well, particularly for the poorest households.

Nick Eyre is Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at Oxford University and the director of CREDS,

a research centre focused on how reductions in energy demand can support a shift to net zero.

Hi, Nick. Thank you for joining us. Good morning. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

published its latest report on how to tackle climate change. What are IPCC assessment reports and why do they matter?

The report on mitigation was published this week. So IPCC assessment reports

come in in three blockbuster sections. The first on climate science, the second on impacts and adaptation,

and then the third on mitigation and what to do about reducing climate change causing emissions.

And together they form a full assessment report. This is a cycle.

This is the sixth assessment report.

They're every five or six years.

This one's taken a bit longer because of the pandemic.

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