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Toggle navigation. Search form. Search.. Transforming Foundation Industries Network+ Conference Plenary keynote. Latest blog posts. Professor Julian Allwood, 5th December 2023. Transforming the Foundation Industries to have absolutely zero emissions

Before joining the Use Less Group, Kirsten worked as administration manager in the communications department of a large international shipping company, as office manager for an economics consultancy and as a

Sandy has an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Metals and Energy Finance from the Imperial College Business School.

Before joining the Use Less Group, Kirsten worked as administration manager in the communications department of a large international shipping company, as office manager for an economics consultancy and as a

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less Industries. Today’s system of production evolved assuming that energy was abundant and without unwanted consequences, so it’s not surprising that industry now contributes so much to global

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less: Live Well. People could use less and live well. The average person in the UK weighs 70kg but the average car weighs 1400kg. When we drive the car – on average with one and a half people in it –

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search.. Response to IEA heavy industry report. Ahead of COP27, Julian Allwood responds to a proposal about “Near zero emissions” steel production in the recent IEA report “Achieving Net Zero Heavy Industry

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to making cars. Automotive: by weight, the world’s automotive industries make more scrap metal than cars, but this can be solved. Future cars must be much smaller and lighter than today’s

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to eating. Our production and preparation of food leads to major sources of greenhouse gases and there are key opportunities to reduce these emissions. Food and drink account for 20% of

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. Climate Change and the Environment. Climate Change is real, it’s caused by human actions and it is already causing damage. "Despite the severity of the problem and our enthusiasm for talking about it,

This question can be answered in many ways: we could create pie charts of global emissions divided by gas, by economic sector, or by the technology that causes the emissions to

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to construction. Construction: today’s commercial buildings are over-specified and under-used, but we could use less material to make buildings that last much longer. Half of the world’s

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to transport. We can achieve our emissions cut to 25% of today’s levels while having access to the same level of personal transport in cars: we just need small, light cars with low

Typically, as countries begin their economic development, they build up their own bulk material industries, until they reach a stage of development that it’s cheaper to import the materials from

Toggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to the steel sector. Steel: we will never need more blast furnaces than we have today but recycling will treble and could be reconfigured to produce high quality final products through

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,