This report reviews the evidence on policies and approaches in other countries and regions concerning a local authority-led transition to net zero. It focuses on: how local authorities can prioritise action on climate change; and innovative financing solutions to support local authorities to transition to net zero.

Decision-makers in government are no strangers to crises and time pressure. This article explores how to improve the quality and take up of evidence when decision-makers are working at speed.

How should we think about the transferability of ideas and methods? If something works in one place and one time, how do we know if it, or some variant of it, will work in another place or another time? This paper offers some suggestions about policy transferability.

Rapid Evidence Assessments (REA) provide high-quality evidence in a timely and cost-effective manner. This guide has been prepared to give people a feel for the entire review process, to inform their tender document, and help them ask searching questions of the review teams - to create a final review that balances rapidity and rigour.

This article forms part of IPPO’s work on spatial inequality. It aims to prompt conversations about the most effective potential policy actions at multiple levels, the lessons learned, and emerging possibilities.