Examples of Projects Underway
Below are a list of the Energy Theme's recent and ongoing projects, organised under topics, although many projects are cross-cutting. As examples of research currently underway:
EnPath:Path dependence and path creation in energy systems
The ongoing exclusion of aviation and shipping emissions from UK carbon budgets further tests the veracity of the Coalition’s claim to be the “greenest government ever” claim the authors of this new Tyndall Centre Briefing Note.
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Policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change have been ‘universal’; aimed either at society as a whole (for example carbon tax, carbon trading), or at specific sectors (e.g. forthcoming EU legislation on gCO2/km for cars). +
The overall project aim is to understand what are the most appropriate tools and methods to support/ inform the UK transition to a low carbon economy, to identify gaps in UK climate change mitigation modelling and to make recommendations for modelling improvements. +
This project builds upon tried and tested methods for exploring future energy supply and demand to develop scenarios incorporating climate change adaptation for a series of key food-based products. These products will be chosen to explore three major issues of importance:
• Their importance within the UK diet +
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