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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

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

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