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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.

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 transitions.

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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.

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.

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

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 in

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.

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

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>

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

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. 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

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.

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

Climate change is an issue of health and safety. It's not primarily an issue of economics. ... of steel that we would like if economic development continued without climate change.

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

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

With academics from six universities spanning from materials engineering through data science to economics, corporate strategy and policy and an industry consortium spanning from mining through construction and manufacturing to final

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 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

Related papers. 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.

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,

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

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

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

engineering, theology, history, fashion studies, economics, innovation studies, public health, sociology and psychology.

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

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

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