Tyndall-Manchester has been established both to conduct its own programme of research into carbon
mitigation and to synthesise outputs from Tyndall Centre's Energy and Climate Change programme
with broader energy projects conducted across the University of Manchester. Based in the School
of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering and with close affiliation to the Manchester
Business School, the Tyndall-Manchester team includes scientists, social scientists,
engineers and economists, and conducts interdisciplinary research on sustainable approaches
to reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Tyndall-Manchester has proven its success both academically and through its substantial
contribution to UK government and EU carbon-mitigation policy. For example, in 2005 it produced
its influential report Decarbonising the UK: energy for a climate conscious future, in which
alternative pathways to meet the Government's own long-term carbon reduction target were detailed.
In 2006, and in recognition of the evolving science of climate change, the Co-operative Bank and
Friends of the Earth commissioned Tyndall-Manchester to develop additional and more demanding
low-carbon pathways. The subsequent report, Living within a carbon budget, has stimulated a
wide-ranging debate on the urgency of implementing a stringent carbon-reduction strategy.
Collectively, these two Tyndall-Manchester reports offer the most comprehensive suite of
low-carbon energy scenarios for the UK to date.
Tyndall-Manchester's research programme comprises 20 energy related projects and a process for
integrating the discrete research to provide an explicitly systems perspective, or 'big picture',
of alternative decarbonisation pathways. Current research projects range from those associated with
energy supply, for example, on biomass, new-renewables and carbon capture and storage, through to
issues of demand related to aviation, freight transport, and personal carbon allowances.
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