Hope McGee Articles from IPPO

  1. How to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Doorstep Deliveries

    How to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Doorstep Deliveries

    Hope McGee In 2024, the International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) was asked by government partners to explore how policymakers could help to reduce the carbon emitted during the last mile of a parcel’s delivery journey. As part of this work, the observatory held an exploratory roundtable with cross-departmental academics at UCL to identify areas for policy action. Following this, we hosted a broader roundtable with representatives from across the freight and delivery landscape, which fed into a systems map to guide our thinking on this subject. This paper explores the trends contributing...

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  2. Growth Beacons: How Innovation Districts Can Create and Spread Prosperity

    Growth Beacons: How Innovation Districts Can Create and Spread Prosperity

    Geoff Mulgan, Jeremy Williams, Hope McGee Across the UK and around the world, Innovation Districts are becoming important engines of productivity, creativity and growth. As part of our work to help governments combat spatial inequality, IPPO launches a new report, produced with collaboration from the UK Innovation Districts Group and UCL’s EPPI Centre, to show how districts can drive success. Growth Beacons: How Innovation Districts Can Create and Spread Prosperity highlights the key role Innovation Districts can play in facilitating economic growth, while sharing their benefits broadly with local people. As well...

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