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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. 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

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

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

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.

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

8 Mar 2016: Economic and social analysis – Base cases 45. Economic and social analysis - Scenarios 56. ... Two issues arise in the very simple economic model used to predict macro-economic effects of the scenarios.

22 Mar 2016: Prolonging OurMetal Life. Making the most of our metal services. Low Carbon and Materials ProcessingDepartment of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United KingdomPhone: 44 (0) 1223 338181 Fax: 44 (0) 1223

22 Mar 2016: economic constraints, but their relative fraction will decrease as. newer more integrated steel and aluminium plants are constructed.

22 Mar 2016: Conserving our metal energy. Avoiding melting steel and aluminium scrap to save energy and carbon. WellMet2050 is a £1.5m 5–year 7–person research programme at the. University of Cambridge, funded by the Engineering and Physical. Science