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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. 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.. Authored papers. The Use Less Group. The Department of Engineering. The University of Cambridge. Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1P.

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.

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. 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,

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.. Authored papers. Related reports. Construction under Absolute Zero. The Use Less Group. The Department of Engineering. The University of Cambridge. Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1P.

Read more at: Economics does not hold the key to solving Climate Change.. ... Economics does not hold the key to solving Climate Change. - Professor Julian Allwood, June 2022.

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

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

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

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

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. 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

How much cement can we do without? Lessons from cement material flows in the UK.

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

Related papers. The technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: Lessons from 12 past transitions.

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

To evaluate the environmental, the economic and social impact of alternative supply chain structures or other scenarios in the clothing and textile sectors.

improving the characterisation of material efficiency and demand reduction in economic models that are used to inform environmental policy.

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

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.. 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

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

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

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”.

Before joining UK FIRES Sam worked as an economic and policy consultant advising governments and development banks on climate policy. ... He also holds degrees in Environmental Economics from the LSE and Mathematics and Philosophy from King’s College

Component-making - Other. Conventional economics dominate the production and use of the key bulk materials – steel, cement, plastic, paper and aluminium.

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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,

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.

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

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,

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

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.

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

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