Reports
See below for our latest project reports, briefing notes, industry and policy reports:
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Power networks
A new report from the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester recommended a range of strategies for adapting the UK’s power network to the effects of climate change. The authors of 'Adapting the power system to a changing climate: monitoring progress' identify a performance monitoring and reporting system for the power network that can be used as a proxy for a measure of success in adapting to climate change.
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Shipping's Role in the Global Energy Transition
This executive summary sets out the scale of the global energy transition needed to meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals, the implications for the shipping sector, and actions which could be taken by national energy ministries and by the shipping sector to help deliver this transition.
Read the full report here.
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Super-Low Carbon Live Music
A roadmap for the UK live music sector to play its part in tackling the climate crisis.
Read the full report here.
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On Net Zero
This publication offers policy recommendations on how the UK can accelerate its path to net zero, while building back better.
Read the full report here.
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A Review of the Role of Fossil Fuel-Based Carbon Capture and Storage in the Energy System.
A review of the current state of fossil fuel based carbon capture and storage projects.
Read the full report here.
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Quantifying the implications of the Paris Agreement for Greater Manchester
Authored by Dr Jaise Kuriakose, Prof Kevin Anderson, Dr John Broderick and Dr Carly McLachlan. Prepared for Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
Read the full report here.
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Natural gas and climate change, University of Manchester
Authored by Anderson, K & Broderick, J 2017.
Read the full report here.
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CO2 Targets, Trajectories and Trends for International Shipping
Authored by Smith, TWP, Traut, M, Bows-Larkin, A, Anderson, K, McGlade, C and Wrobel, P 2015.
Read the full report here.
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Estimating 2°C Carbon Budgets for Wales
A research briefing commissioned by the Climate Change Commission for Wales
Authored by:
Prof Kevin Anderson – Tyndall Manchester
Dr Steven Glynn – Sustainable Change Co-operative
Dr Ruth Wood – Tyndall Manchester
May 2015
Find out more.
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High Seas, High Stakes
The report's findings highlight that more needs to be done to curb the rate of growth in emissions, with slow-steaming - where ships run at lower speeds during their voyages in order to reduce fuel burn - an essential part of the push towards cutting CO2. It also highlights the importance of looking at the bigger picture. For example, new regulations that encourage the uptake of fuels that are lower in sulphur, such as low sulphur diesel, may ultimately release higher levels of CO2.
Read the full report here.
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Can the UK afford (not) to produce chemicals in 2050?
The Chemical and Process industry in the UK is the leading manufacturing export sector and underpins the advanced manufacturing sector across the economy. It is an essential part of any attempt to move to a low-carbon advanced economy. But in playing this role in the UK and within the EU, it is exposed to a number of challenges, which government and companies need to meet if its contribution to society is to be maintained.
Read the full report here.
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What is COOLTRANS?
A large consortium project funded by National Grid looking at pipeline transportation of Carbon Dioxide within a Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) system. Contributing to the wider COOLTRANS project, Tyndall Manchester have explored the public perception of risk in this report.
Read the full report here.
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Social impacts of COOLTRANS
A look at the social impacts of the installation of pipeline networks.
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Public perception of COOLTRANS
A look at the public perceptions of CO2 transport in pipelines.
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Aviation and shipping - privileged again?
Tyndall Centre Briefing note 47, Manchester University, Manchester. Authored by Bows-Larkin, A, Traut, M, Gilbert, P, Mander, S, Walsh, C and Anderson, K 2012.
Read the full report here.
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What’s Cooking? Adaptation and Mitigation in the UK Food System
This report presents findings based on an interdisciplinary systems level scenario approach designed specifically to address complex societal problems. The project was funded by the Sustainable Consumption Institute to explore how the UK food system may develop and change in response to futures bounded by more or less extreme climate impacts and emission cuts.
Read the full report here.
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Public Attitudes, Understanding, and Engagement in relation to Low-Carbon Energy: A selective review of academic and non-academic literatures
This report provides an introduction to some of the most relevant social science theory and concepts relating to public engagement (chapter 3), before reviewing findings on attitudes and engagement relating to energy supply, storage and distribution technologies (chapter 4); energy demand attitudes and engagement (chapter 5); and energy systems and research engagement (chapter 6). The report also discusses cross-cutting themes, knowledge gaps and recommendations for public engagement in the RCUK Energy Programme.
Read the full report here.
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Shale gas: an updated assessment of environmental and climate change impacts
Authored by Broderick, J, Anderson, K, Wood, R, Gilbert, P, Sharmina, M, Footitt, A, Glynn, S and Nicholls, F 2011, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester.
Read the full report here.
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Shipping and climate change: Scope for unilateral action
This report presents research on international shipping emissions and climate change undertaken at The University of Manchester by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). The research considers the role that the shipping sector could play in mitigating total global emissions, with a particular focus on assessing the potential for UK unilateral action.
Read the full report here.
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Making a Climate Commitment: Analysis of the first Report (2008) of the UK Committee on Climate Change
The Climate Change Act 2008 represents a significant step in the UK's effort to address climate change and demonstrates that scientific evidence, at least to some extent, is informing policy development. The CCC's inaugural Report sets out a series of recommendations to Government for the first three budget periods up to 2022, along with suggestions for how trading of emissions can be used to help realise them.
Read the full report here.
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Aviation in the North West: Emissions, Economics and Organisational Flying
The international community recognises climate change as one of the greatest threats facing the social, environmental and economic well-being of humankind. At a national level, the UK has demonstrated a clear international lead in responding to climate change by putting the need for and delivery of greenhouse gas emissions reductions on a statutory footing through the Climate Change Act 2008. Furthermore, and unlike previous UK emission reduction policies, the Climate Change Act includes international aviation emissions both explicitly and implicitly.
Read the full report here.
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Towards a 2°C future: Emission reduction scenarios for Wales
The Welsh Assembly Government is already demonstrating strong leadership on sustainable development, putting associated principles at the heart of the Assembly Government vision for the future. Climate change is a central issue within the recently published One Wales: One Planet, The Sustainable Development Scheme of the Welsh Assembly Government, as is the desire to respond to its challenges in a meaningful way.
Read the full report here.
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Living within a Carbon Budget
A landmark report highlighting for the first time the practical importance of cumulative emissions for developing meaningful and evidence based decarbonisation polices. The report details energy system scenarios commensurate with very low carbon decarbonisation pathways, with a particular focus on transport.
Read the full report here.
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Growth scenarios for EU and UK Aviation: Contradictions with Climate Policy
The Decarbonising the UK scenarios produced by the Tyndall Centre are the first to fully integrate the energy system and include carbon dioxide emissions from land, sea and air transport. The scenarios integrate the perspectives of energy analysts, engineers, economists and social and environmental scientists to provide a whole system understanding of how the UK Government can achieve a 'true' 60% carbon dioxide reduction target by 2050.
Read the full report here.
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Decarbonising the UK: Energy for a climate conscious future
The Decarbonising the UK scenarios produced by the Tyndall Centre are the first to fully integrate the energy system and include carbon dioxide emissions from land, sea and air transport. The scenarios integrate the perspectives of energy analysts, engineers, economists and social and environmental scientists to provide a whole system understanding of how the UK Government can achieve a 'true' 60% carbon dioxide reduction target by 2050.
Read the full report here.
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