Peter Sims

Peter Sims

Peter Sims is an Electronic Engineer who specialises in systems engineering. He particularly focuses on the overlap and interfaces between human and non-human systems.

Jonathan Essex

Beyond Drax: A Real Green Future for Yorkshire and the Humber

In this report we quantify and describe over 70,000 green jobs across various sectors in Yorkshire and the Humber over ten years. We propose a redirection of Drax subsidies towards this vision.



Nadine Storey

Post 2024 General Election Survey - Analysis

The Green House 2024 general election survey highlights big questions for Green Parties around their purpose and differentiation from other political parties, how to represent increasingly diverse views and how to model the society they wish to see through their own internal governance systems.



Peter Sims

How to Hide an Empire

Peter Sims reviews Daniel Immerwahr's book, 'How to Hide an Empire'. A tour of US imperialism, how it happen, how it shape our world today, and implications for how we respond to our global predicament (particularly the threat of climate change).



Peter Sims

Geopolitics of Degrowth Interviews

Can a European Union that is the first to renounce economic growth still be a global player? This project initiates a conversation between critics of economic growth and progressive thinkers on foreign and security policy. Green House think tank collaborated as a partner to this project led by the Green



Jonathan Essex

Heating and Cooling of Buildings

This Policy Briefing applies recommendations of the Rethinking Energy Demand framing report to the heating and cooling of buildings. It outlines the current context, the need to reduce the number of buildings heated and the amount of heating and cooling needed within them.



Jonathan Essex

Rethinking Energy Demand

Framing Report published in collaboration with Green European Foundation - If industrialised European societies are to reach zero carbon on a timescale compatible with limiting climate change, they must significantly reduce their energy demand. This will disrupt business-as-usual.



Peter Sims

Beyond Consumerism Conference

Green House Think Tank involvement in upcoming 'Beyond Consumerism Conference' on 14th May.



Prashant Vaze

The conversation isn’t where we thought it was

XR-UK has released its 2022 strategy As the World Looks Up We Step Up expanding on its 2019 list of demands. Prashant and Peter from Green House Think Tank core group briefly reflect on it's significance.



Peter Sims

COP26

Events in the Green Hub at COP26.



Peter Sims

Global Public Investment requirements for Zero Carbon

Sufficient and appropriately directed global public investment is critical to shift our economies globally to zero carbon. Currently such investment is inadequate, and still funds infrastructure expansion which increases dependance of fossil fuel reliant.



Peter Sims

COP26: Asking the Wrong Questions?

This gas by Peter Sims asks whether COP26 will succeed and argues that it needs to stop asking the wrong questions in order to take the opportunity to change direction



Jonathan Essex

Webinar: Overseas Development Finance and the Climate Emergency

As the COP26 Climate Summit approaches, join international development specialists, campaigners and politicians from Europe and the UK to discuss how aid and climate finance must change to support an equitable 1.5°C world.