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Local Industrial Strategies can capitalise on gaps in UK climate and resource policies

Dr Kate Scott By Kate Scott Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment Posted: January 23, 2019

As the UK and many local regions embark on developing and implementing industrial strategies Dr Kate Scott from the School of Environment, Education and Development argues it is crucial to identify how their strengths can support innovation and development for low carbon transitions. This is particularly true in light of the government’s recent announcement that […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Responsible Production and Consumption, #SDG Sustainable Cities and Communities, Business Energy & Industry, climate change, Climate Policy, Digital Futures, Energy efficiency, energy policy, Industrial Strategy, Local industrial Strategy, productivity, Resource efficiency, SEED, sustainability

Gilets jaunes, Extinction Rebellion and neoliberal climate policy

Prof Matthew Paterson By Matthew Paterson Filed Under: Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Europe Posted: December 20, 2018

#SDG Two protest movements erupted in the UK and France on November 17th, with apparently opposite logics. Here, Matthew Paterson, Professor of International Politics in the School of Social Sciences, argues that both movements are a result of the way carbon pricing is been both regressive socially and woefully inadequate in climate terms. This centre […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Sustainable Cities and Communities, Carbon pricing, carbon reduction, climate change, Climate Policy, Digital Futures, Extinction Rebellion, Gilets Jaunes, SoSS, sustainability

Response to the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report

Kevin Anderson By Kevin Anderson Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted: October 8, 2018

The University of Manchester’s Professor Kevin Anderson responds to today’s report from the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC report meticulously lays out how the serious climate impacts of 1.5°C of warming are still far less destructive than those for 2°C. Sadly, the IPCC then fails, again, to address the profound implications of reducing […]

Tagged With: carbon emissions, carbon reduction, climate change, consumption, environment, global warming, IPCC, sustainability

A Policy@Manchester interview with the Dr Bachir Ouedraogo, Minister of Energy for Burkina Faso

Chris Peters By Chris Peters Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Industry 4.0 Posted: August 7, 2018

Dr Bachir Ouedraogo won a scholarship from the Sustainable Consumption Institute at The University of Manchester and he went on complete his PhD in MACE in 2012 looking at the impact of climate change, renewable energy and population on the future energy demand for Burkina Faso. In 2015 Bachir was elected to the National Assembly […]

Tagged With: #solarpower, Business Energy & Industry, Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, education, energy, environment, Industry 4.0, Manchester, SCI

Expert reaction – Environmental Audit Committee report

Claire Hoolohan By Claire Hoolohan Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Science and Technology, Urban Posted: July 30, 2018

The Environmental Audit Committee launched its report on heat-related deaths and included a series of recommendations for the Government. Dr Claire Hoolohan Research Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, considers how suitable recommendations in this report around water use are, and what additions she’d like to see. Claire’s current project, working with […]

Tagged With: Business Energy & Industry, Cities and Environment, Clean water, climate change, consumption, devohealth, Digital Futures, energy, environment, Health & Social Care, house building, Tyndall, urban planning, water use

We need creative responses to water stress and climate change, and we need them now.

Claire Hoolohan By Claire Hoolohan Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment Posted: July 18, 2018

As the threat of drought becomes a reality in the UK, Claire Hoolohan Research Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, considers how we might change the way society uses water. With hosepipe bans being introduced how do we look at future water supplies Water shortage, or water scarcity, is about how much […]

Tagged With: Business Energy & Industry, Cities and Environment, Clean water, climate action, climate change, consumption, Digital Health, drought, energy, environment, innovation, sustainability, Tyndall, water management

Fine weather ahead for the nuclear industry?

By Juan Matthews Filed Under: Brexit, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted: July 9, 2018

On the 28 June, the long awaited “Nuclear Sector Deal” was launched. The response from the nuclear industry has been enthusiastic and it could be an important step in establishing a nuclear renaissance. Professor Juan Matthews of the Dalton Nuclear Institute takes a closer look at the likely impact and some other recent developments. The […]

Tagged With: Brexit, Business Energy & Industry, Dalton, Enery, Euratom, infrastructure, innovation, nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear skills

Heathrow Expansion in light of the UK’s Climate Change Commitments

Alice LarkinJohn Broderick By Alice Larkin and John Broderick Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted: June 22, 2018

Alice Larkin, Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy at The University of Manchester, along with Dr John Broderick consider if the level of emissions from the Heathrow expansion is in alignment with the UK’s legal commitments on climate change. They argue that the proposed expansion jeopardises these legal commitments, given the absence of a […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Affordable and Clean Energy, Business Energy & Industry, carbon reduction, climate change, consumption, energy, environment, net zero, sustainability, transport

What can we expect from Andy Burnham’s Green Summit?

By Julia Kasmire Filed Under: All posts, Devo, Energy and Environment Posted: March 20, 2018

Ahead of Andy Burnham’s Green Summit this week, Julia Kasmire of the University of Manchester’s Sustainable Consumption Institute investigates whether the Greater Manchester Combined Authority will take the necessary steps to take responsibility for achieving carbon neutrality. Andy Burnham has called for a Green Summit which is expected to establish a ‘green charter’ to lay […]

Tagged With: Andy Burnham, Carbon Neutrality, carbon reduction, consumption, environment, GMCA, Green Summit, local government, net zero, sustainability

New approaches needed for nuclear

By Juan Matthews and Neil Irvine Filed Under: All posts, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Industry 4.0, Science and Technology Posted: January 22, 2018

Nuclear power is an essential part of the low carbon energy mix and in this piece for Policy@Manchester Professor Juan Matthews and Dr Neil Irvine explain why new approaches are needed to reduce its cost. Nuclear power needs to become cheaper, safer and more flexible. It needs to contribute to a wider usage of energy […]

Tagged With: Business Energy & Industry, carbon reduction, climate change, Digital Futures, energy, fit 4 nuclear, Industrial Strategy, Industry 4.0, nuclear, nuclear manufacturing

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