Planet Positive Chemicals: How To Transform The Chemical Industry For A Sustainable Future
New report from Systemiq outlines how to create a planet positive chemical industry which facilitates global sustainability.
Publications
Low emission building control with zero-shot reinforcement learning
Heating and cooling systems in buildings account for 31% of global energy use. Many of these systems are regulated by Rule Based Controllers (RBCs) that neither maximise energy...
Mat-dp: An open-source Python model for analysing material demand projections and their environmental implications, which result from building low-carbon systems
Materials are essential for creating the systems used in everyday life, yet, manufacturing materials emits large quantities of greenhouse gases (GHG). Emissions from material production have been estimated...
A home for all within planetary boundaries: Pathways for meeting England’s housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals
Secure housing is core to the Sustainable Development Goals and a fundamental human right. However, potential conflicts between housing and sustainability objectives remain under-researched. We explore the impact...
Evaluating the economic and environmental impacts of road pavement using an integrated local sensitivity model
Globally, road pavement networks generate significant economic investment and environmental impact during the construction, maintenance, and operation of road infrastructure. It is a sustainability requirement to reduce pavement...
Systematic assessment of food traceability information loss: A case study of the Bangladesh export shrimp supply chain
Traceability information systems in food supply chains can suffer from information loss, and this can cause food safety crises and economic downturns around the world. Information loss happens...
Materials and Manufacturing: Business growth in a transformative journey to zero emissions
UK law commits us to zero emissions by 2050 with most of the reduction occurring by 2035. Corporate and political strategy today is counting on new technologies, like...
Plastics and climate change – Breaking carbon lock-ins through three mitigation pathways
The plastic industry is dependent on fossil fuels in various ways that result in strong “carbon lock-in” throughout the value chain and large and growing CO2 emissions. Carbon lock-in...
Resource Use in Poland in 2019: Challenges and Opportunities
For this study, energy and material flows are visualised in the form of Sankey diagrams [1] where material and energy flows are traced from material and energy sources,...