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Agro-Food System Innovation without Greenhouse Gas emissions | 2025 | UKFIRES |
Our agricultural and food system affects all of us but would need to undergo complete transformation in order for us to completely eliminate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. |
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Construction under Absolute Zero | 2023 | UKFIRES |
The construction industry will be transformed in a zero-emission society; from the choice of materials, their production and the design of structures, to the organisation of towns and cities. The built environment is a great enabler of other transformations in the way we work, play and live, and... |
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Energy Sector Under Absolute Zero | 2022 | UKFIRES |
As the government launches its Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA) focusing on electricity supply, UK FIRES publishes a new report detailing the even greater scale of opportunity for energy sector innovation on the demand side. Where new installation of renewable supply is... |
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Materials & Manufacturing under Absolute Zero | 2022 | UKFIRES |
Facing the reality that new energy-sector technologies won’t solve climate change fast enough reveals rich opportunities for innovation and growth in UK materials and manufacturing sectors. UK law commits us to zero emissions by 2050 with most of the reduction occurring by 2035. But we’re not on... |
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Minus 45 | 2021 | UKFIRES |
Ahead of COP26, the UK Government has submitted its Nationally Determined Contribution to global climate mitigation which requires a 45% reduction in UK emissions from 2018 to 2030. Even if all planned new generation is delivered on time, the government’s pledge can only be met with significant... |
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Entrepreneurs Not Emissions | 2021 | UKFIRES |
The gap between the UK’s emissions-reduction targets and its delivery policies creates a vast and largely unexplored space for entrepreneurship and business growth. Reaching zero emissions within one generation depends on electrification, but we won’t have as much non-emitting electricity as we’... |
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ZERPAs | 2021 | UKFIRES |
In the rapid transition to net zero, demand is likely to exceed supply for three zero-emissions resources: non-emitting electricity, biomass and negative emissions. ZERPAs are a new financial instrument that allow capital markets to anticipate this shortage, evaluate risks and redirect capital... |
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Steel Arising | 2019 |
The global steel industry is transforming from using iron ore to recycling scrap. Global arisings of steel scrap are likely to treble in the next thirty years and we will never need more blast furnaces than we have today. The extent and speed of this global transformation depends on two... |
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Absolute Zero | 2019 | UKFIRES, Cambridge Electric Cement, tickzero |
We have to cut our greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050: that’s what climate scientists tell us, it’s what social protesters are asking for and it’s now the law in the UK. But we aren’t on track. For twenty years we’ve been trying to solve the problem with new or breakthrough technologies... |
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Industrial Metamorphosis | 2017 |
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Construction 2025 | 2017 | ||
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WholeSEM - Modelling energy systems | 2016 |
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A bright future for UK steel | 2016 | WellMet 2050 | |
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HOSANA: Whole Systems Analysis | 2014 | WholeSEM |
Devising swift responses to critical mineral supply capacity risks and disruptions
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Land Rover Defender - Stories of Use | 2014 | WellMet 2050 | |
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WellMet 2050 - Taking our metal temperature | 2011 | WellMet 2050 | |
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WellMet 2050 - Prolonging our metal life | 2011 | WellMet 2050 | |
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WellMet 2050 - Going on a metal diet | 2011 | UKFIRES | |
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WellMet 2050 - Conserving our Metal Energy | 2010 | WellMet 2050 | |
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Well Dressed: Technical Annex | 2006 | Well Dressed? | |
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Well Dressed | 2006 | Well Dressed? |