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In industrialised nations, these strategies have had little attention, because of economic, regulatory and social barriers, which are each examined.

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less technologies. Much of the response to climate change to date has been to invest hope and money in the idea that technical innovation will lead to new profitable solutions to the problem. As made clear

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less Policy. The pathway to significant climate mitigation will depend on policy deployment, but in the short term public appetite for policies that influence energy demand is limited, and if applied

Sam Stephenson – 21st September 2023. The Prime Minister’s announcement to cut green policies means we won’t be meeting our climate targets – sacrificing our planetary and economic health for no ... However, while increasingly necessary given the

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less Information. Our work gained much stronger direction and clarity once we’d learnt how to present a holistic picture of the driver of an environmental problem – whether of greenhouse gas emissions,

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search.. Is Absolute Zero pessimistic about UK energy supplies? - Professor Julian Allwood, March 2023. The most common response we receive when we present Absolute Zero to governmental or incumbent commercial

emissions world and to enable economic development where it is most needed.’.

engineering, theology, history, fashion studies, economics, innovation studies, public health, sociology and psychology. ... Prof. Hamish Low, University of Cambridge, “Are prices enough? The economics of material demand reduction”.

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Reducing global emissions by changing our demand. Climate change is real; we have to cut emissions significantly and rapidly; we don’t have any alternative forms of energy supply that we can deploy fast

A macro-economic analysis of steel in the UK shows that while the steel industry is relatively small, the construction and manufacturing sectors are large, and it would be politically unacceptable

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to other materials. Other sectors: we have completed projects on cement, paper and aluminium and think that the industrial equipment sector has particular potential for innovating to release a

and an improved understanding of the dependence of recycling on economics, technology, and other factors.

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Climate change connections to water and land stress. Global warming is changing our sources of fresh water and reducing the amount of land available for growing crops. Creating today’s energy supply requires

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Reducing global emissions by being more efficient. If we want to cut our use of energy in the developed economies to one quarter of today’s levels, can we do it by using the energy more efficiently? If we

Current surveys of energy efficiency measures assess only known technology options developed in response to current economic and technical drivers.

This paper, which introduces a Discussion Meeting Issue on the topic of material efficiency, aims to give an overview of current thinking on the topic, spanning environmental, engineering, economics, sociology and ... However, current economic structures

These are: (1) customer preferences; (2) market positioning; (3) techno-economic feasibility; (4) supply chain feasibility; (5) regulation and (6) organisational attributes.

The resulting evidence is used to tailor life-extension strategies to each reason for product failure and to identify the economic motivations for implementing these strategies.

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Reducing global emissions by changing our energy supply. For everybody, the simplest solution to climate change would be if we could find a new form of energy supply which didn’t release greenhouse gases.

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Climate change and critical materials. Critical materials are not a problem related to climate change. In contrast, the bulk materials – particularly steel and cement – are major drivers of global warming,

The approach includes calculation of a ‘triple bottom line graphic equaliser’ to allow exploration and evaluation of the trade-offs between economic, environmental and social impacts.

economic and environmental context to the needs of the present day.

Recent UK economic policies have led to reduced domestic steel production giving an apparent reduction in national emissions.

It enables exploration of how the effects of climate change may undermine agricultural systems and disrupt food supply, which can lead to economic shocks, socio-political instability as well as starvation,

While these energy system options meet emission targets at feasible economic cost, water requirement for the deployment of the proposed energy technology mix is not adequately accounted for.

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Prioritising climate change. The problem of climate change is global and the worst effects of today’s release of greenhouse gases will be felt by future generations who do not yet have a voice. Many

M. Allwood, K. S. Richards. Abstract:. Increasing population and economic growth continue to drive China's demand for energy and water resources.

Further work is needed to investigate the influence of temperature, of adding surfactants and to consider the economic, safety and environmental implications.