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Net-zero target by 2050? We can do better than that

By Simon Bullock Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Renewables, Science and Engineering Posted: May 16, 2019

Simon Bullock is a PhD student at Tyndall Manchester, working on shipping and climate change. In this blog Simon discusses the Net Zero report published this month by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) and argues that under the principles the CCC is rightly advocating, this 2050 date is too late. This month the Committee […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Reduced Inequalities, #SDG Sustainable Cities and Communities, Business Energy & Industry, carbon budget, climate change, environment, inequalities, net zero, sustainability, Tyndall, Tyndall Centre

Critical social infrastructure for older people

By Sophie Yarker Filed Under: Growth and Inclusion Posted: May 1, 2019

Sophie Yarker is a Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA), working on the Greater Manchester-based Ambition for Ageing programme. In this blog, she discusses her research into the importance of social infrastructure for older people and the need to think about it in new ways. Face-to-face interactions are the […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Reduced Inequalities, #SDG Sustainable Cities and Communities, ageing, ageing society, Business Energy & Industry, inequalities, loneliness, micra, older people, sustainability, urban

How policy instrument choice will shape attitudes to negative emissions

Terri Lucas By Terri Lucas Filed Under: Energy and Environment Posted: April 11, 2019

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change has set out commitments to limit the increase in global average temperature to “well below 2°C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C”. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that this is still possible, but nearly all of their scenarios assume that it will require […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Affordable and Clean Energy, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, BECCS, bioenergy, Business Energy & Industry, carbon emissions, carbon reduction, climate change, energy, environment, NETs, social opinion

Worryingly windy weather or a strong tail-wind?

By Laurence Stamford Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Renewables Posted: March 19, 2019

On the 7 March, the long awaited “Offshore Wind Sector Deal” was launched, laying out the UK Government’s vision for the future of offshore wind power to 2030. So far, responses to the deal have been somewhat mixed: it’s been welcomed by various industry players as a sign of the Government’s commitment, but has faced […]

Tagged With: #SDG Affordable and Clean Energy, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Responsible Production and Consumption, Business Energy & Industry, climate change, consumption, energy, renewables, sustainability, wind power

Are small modular reactors back on the agenda?

Professor Richard Taylor By Richard Taylor Filed Under: Energy and Environment Posted: February 19, 2019

The recent suspension of the Wylfa Nuclear power project has been seen by some as a potential opening for small modular reactors. Here Professor Richard Taylor, the BNFL Chair in Nuclear Energy Systems, at The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute looks at what needs to happen for small modular reactors to actually become part […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, Business Energy & Industry, Dalton, Dalton Nuclear Institute, energy, nuclear, nuclear energy

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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

Beyond technology: addressing the social and sustainability challenges of next generation industrial systems

By Philip Shapira Filed Under: Digital Futures, Industry 4.0, Science and Engineering, Science and Technology Posted: January 22, 2019

This week’s annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos will discuss prospects for ‘Globalisation 4.0’, with participants debating how to match a global economy increasingly driven by new technology and the movement of ideas, people, and goods, with citizens around the world looking to ‘take back control’. Professor Philip Shapira from the Manchester […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Decent Work and Economic Growth, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Responsible Production and Consumption, AMBS, Business Energy & Industry, climate change, consumption, Davos, fourth industrial revolution, Globalisation 4.0, Industry 4.0, MIOIR, productivity

The return of industrial democracy: preparing the ground for dealing with wayward capitalism?

Miguel Martínez Lucio By Miguel Martínez Lucio Filed Under: Digital Futures, Growth and Inclusion Posted: January 2, 2019

Miguel Martínez Lucio, Professor in the Work and Equalities Institute and the Alliance Manchester Business School at The University of Manchester, and an expert of worker participation, trade union questions and the role of the state, discusses the renewed interest in industrial democracy and the need for a strategic plan. There is a growing interest […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Decent Work and Economic Growth, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Peace Justice and Strong Institutions, Business Energy & Industry, corporate governance, Digital Futures, innovation, justice, productivity, WEI, worker influence, worker ownership, worker participation, workforce

Promoting financial stability in a financially-integrated world economy: Is there scope for international policy coordination?

By Pierre-Richard Agénor Filed Under: All posts Posted: December 10, 2018

Greater international financial integration in recent decades has increased the scope for cross-border financial spillovers from one group of countries to another. Do these spillovers, and the resulting financial risks that they create for the world economy, provide greater scope for international policy coordination in the area of prudential policy? In an ongoing joint research […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Decent Work and Economic Growth, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Peace Justice and Strong Institutions, Business Energy & Industry, economy, financial regulation, financial stability, Global Banking, International Policy Coordination, justice, productivity

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