Why inclusive policy matters: an interview with Stephen Frost, IPPR

The Green Alliance Podcast

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Environment, Uk, Farming, Green Alliance, News, Sustainability, Society & Culture, Government

4.9 • 34 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The benefits and challenges of participatory policy making are discussed with Stephen Frost, Co-Head of Participative Research and Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Many climate experts have expressed the need to bring people along in the transition to net zero, ensuring it is one of social justice. The use of participatory research methods and policy making processes is one way to do so. Stephen discusses IPPR’s Environmental Justice Commission and how the outcomes of its citizen’s juries have shaped IPPR’s policy recommendations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast.
0:05.8	We're the charity and think tank that is all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.
0:10.9	I'm Sophie O'Connell, policy advisor at Green Alliance.
0:14.5	In this episode, I chat to Stephen Frost from the Think Tank Institute for Public Policy Research,
0:20.1	where we talk about all the changes
0:21.5	that think tanks and NGOs can make to increase the amount of public engagement they do around
0:26.2	their policies.
0:30.1	So welcome, Ceele and thank you so much for joining me.
0:33.0	Thank you for having me.
0:34.1	So first of all, it would be good to just get an intro to you and IPPR's work and your role
0:39.5	and maybe a bit about the fair transition unit as well. So Institute for Public Policy Research,
0:45.0	IPPR for short, is an independent charity and think tank that covers a broad spectrum of public
0:50.5	policy, but everything is focused on working towards a fairer, greener and more
0:55.5	prosperous society. Within that, I sit within the Fair Transition Unit, which is focused on
1:00.6	accelerating environmental action in a way that is aligned with Securu, a fairer society,
1:05.7	and improving people's quality of life. Across our team, we've got people who look at green industrial strategy,
1:12.3	the future of work, how we eat our homes, everything you can think of around what might be
1:16.6	needed for that transition. My focus is on two things. One of them is transport, with an emphasis on
1:23.0	how people travel within the UK. And the second is on engaging the public in policy baking.
1:29.9	And I do a lot of that on climate, but I also help the rest of the Institute in thinking about
1:34.5	how they might do that effectively on policy areas like levelling up or health or anything
1:39.9	else that we're engaging people on. So green lights is looking at this work initially to
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