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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,

20 Sep 2016: Indigenous. Global. Potential economic use for by- products and agricultural residues that would otherwise be treated as waste. ... committed to sugar cane cultivation for ethanol production. The social and economic impact of this crop for the local.