Explore our new background briefing, which shares insights from the Better Futures Retrofit Accelerator programme to explore the opportunities for climate innovation in the building retrofit sector.

Explore the briefing by Clare Lowe, reviewed by @drrcarmichael.bsky.social & Alyssa Gilbert and edited by @cait-hewitt.bsky.social: ow.ly/w9Wp50WROIV

👍🏽 ...and biodiversity too 👍🏼

We have had the second worst UK harvest on record last year and just last week 4 times the size of the UK was flooded in Australia - killing hundreds of thousands of animals.

The 4+4 Framework is relatively complex but could better support users to capture all risks, avoid double-counting, make decisions that account for trade-offs and synergies, and continue to improve data and governance.

Poor metrics and data jeopardise energy security by limiting risk assessment and the ability to respond and manage them. We propose two dashboards – one to show levels of energy security risks and one showing the quality of current data and metrics (example here).

This paper proposes the ‘4+4 Framework’ for monitoring UK energy security. It comprises eight dimensions - the familiar “4 As”, plus 4 more: Sustainability, Independence, Governance, and Data & Metrics. 72 indicators and corresponding data sources are tagged against these.