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Toggle navigation. Search form. Search.. Authored papers. 1. Related reports. The Use Less Group. The Department of Engineering. The University of Cambridge. Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1P.

The technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: Lessons from 12 past transitions. ... A Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and the Potential for Energy Efficiency and Materials Recycling.

Dr Sarah Nelson. Job title:. PhD Student. Sarah’s research bridges the disciplines of economics and engineering to assess barriers to urgent climate policy. ... The technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: Lessons from 12 past

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

How much cement can we do without? Lessons from cement material flows in the UK. ... A Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and the Potential for Energy Efficiency and Materials Recycling.

9 Jun 2021: J. Jávor, B. and Hargitai, M., ed. 2011. The Kolontár report – causes and lesson from the red mud disaster. ... Happiness – lessons from a new science. London: Penguin. Leal-Ayala, D.R., Allwood, J.M.

5 Dec 2023: Firstly, economic development in India is likely to trigger. further expansion in global primary steel making capacity with more modern plants, and even lower labour costs. ... 2021) The technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: lessons

Lessons from indigenous architecture – for example in the Middle East). ... This is a manufacturing problem – and as yet no one has designed an economic means to retrofit houses fast enough, and at an appropriate cost, to motivate wide uptake.

8 Mar 2016: The analysis included prediction of the environmental, economic and social consequences of changes in production structure, consumer behaviour, material and process innovations and government influence. ... The next section reports on the flow of

Nelson, S., & Allwood, J. M. (2021). The technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: Lessons from 12 past transitions.

12 May 2017: validated economic models for strategic policy making; encourage demonstrators of different experiences of material value. ... boards, such as the German model with employee representation. Appropriate use of economic models.

22 Mar 2016: use products purchased by consumers. But instead of grouping. the metal flows by country, or company, or even economic sector,. ... Rebar. Case studies. Lessons learnt. In all the case-studies considered here, weight savings of 15–30%.

A Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and the Potential for Energy Efficiency and Materials Recycling. ... In the first part, we review economic development, pollution, and carbon emissions from a

through changing the way to discuss, narrativise and understand climate change.</p> <p>Before joining UK FIRES Sam worked as an economic and policy consultant advising governments and development banks on ... analysis.</p> <p>Sarah holds a Masters in

Toggle navigation. The Use Less Group, based at the University of Cambridge and led by Professor Julian Allwood, has been pursuing world-leading research in climate mitigation for over 20 years. Our impact projects, linked below, are funded by EPSRC,

Dr Sarah Nelson. Sarah’s research bridges the disciplines of economics and engineering to assess barriers to urgent climate policy. ... analysis. Sarah holds a Masters in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Bachelors degrees

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.

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

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

Economics does not hold the key to solving Climate Change. - Professor Julian Allwood, June 2022. ... goes on to see no contradiction in the rest of the climate dogma of misused economics.

of low carbon technology that will solve climate change while producing economic growth. ... Furthermore, most economic models are designed for exploring marginal changes from the present.

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.

Behind this misinformation lies a habit of thinking that climate mitigation must not influence the economic development that would occur without it. ... Typically, policy plans assume a future demand for goods and services based on uninterrupted economic

department of a large international shipping company, as office manager for an economics consultancy and as a PA to the managing director of a Cambridge research and development company.</span></p>

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

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

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

Dr Simone Cooper-Searle. Job title:. PhD Student. Simone graduated with a BSc in Economics from the University of Birmingham in 2007 and an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University

Lili holds a PhD in Economics (2011) from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany.

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.

an extraordinarily broad range of academics, from public health through theology to economics, social psychology and anthropology.

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 Future. Our basis in engineering allows us to identify possible interventions and make connections which will enable a low carbon future. We are a multiplinary centre of research and can therefore

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.. 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.

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 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

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

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