15 results, sorted by date
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Demand
Technology and new business models make it possible to do much more with much less, thereby reducing demand for resources. Governments and companies must seize the opportunity to shape future consumption trends towards more sustainable practices.
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The Future of Electricity
The Hoffmann Centre is exploring the future of electricity, a crucial factor in the transition to a clean, affordable, reliable and sustainable global energy system. These publications analyse key aspects of the electricity transition, including technology, resources, business models and social and political implications, suggesting innovative ways to address the problems and opportunities arising.
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Environment and Trade 2.0
To focus political energy, governments and stakeholders from both the environment and trade communities should seize the ongoing discussions on WTO reform to integrate a stronger environmental dimension into the organization’s future, establishing an agenda for Environment and Trade 2.0, argues Carolyn Deere Birkbeck.
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What Electric Business?
Is the electric business doomed? That may seem a foolish question when every analysis indicates that global electricity use will continue to increase rapidly in the coming decades. But that depends on what you mean by 'electric business'. Electricity was not originally a business. It might, once again, no longer be.
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Shifting to Sustainable Consumption for 1.5°C: Gaps, Solutions, and New Policy Agendas
Supply-side reductions in emissions have dominated thinking to date. An area that has received less attention is that of demand-side, lifestyle, and behavior changes to reduce emissions.
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Redefining Electric Resources
Treating 'run-of-the-river' hydro, wind and solar electricity as consumable commodities is fundamentally inconsistent, and has important implications for policy and investment, argues Walt Patterson.
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Flexibility: Shifting the Power Balance
As renewables become a large share of the global energy mix, greater electricity system flexibility will be critical and will originate from the small scale, write Daniel Quiggin and Antony Froggatt.
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Shaping demand...A first look
The dialogue explored tools to shift societal preferences and support more sustainable consumption behaviours. It analysed lessons from experiences of ‘nudging’ and other efforts in policy areas such as food, energy, buildings and infrastructure, and identified promising opportunities where interventions that target demand-side shifts could deliver more sustainable outcomes. Participants were from industry, government, international organizations, NGOs, academia, foundations and think tanks.
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Circular economy & decarbonisation: lessons from industry
High quality recycling of industrial materials is a key strategy for delivering a low carbon circular future, argues John Gardner.
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Scrapping the combustion engine: the metals critical to success of EVs
The demise of internal combustion vehicles is in sight with electric vehicles poised to replace them. But the cost and scarcity of critical metals could prove a major hurdle, writes Daniel Quiggin.
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Rethinking the Land Economy: Keeping 1.5°C in Sight
Land Economy for Sustainability Dialogue Series This first dialogue took place in early 2017. It explored key elements for a scalable strategy for reducing land-based emissions, drawing on lessons learnt from the past decade on the strategic transformation of the energy sector. It also discussed some of the critical ‘no regret’ interventions that could be scaled up immediately, and identified levers needed to create the preconditions for disruptive change beyond 2030.
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What’s cooking? The future of meat
Hailed as a major disruptor to today’s livestock industry, companies producing innovative meat analogues are blurring the line between disruption and business-as-usual, writes Laura Wellesley.