Unintended consequences? Life cycle comparison of UK industrial decarbonisation pathways

IDRIC Project MIP 1.6

Imperial College London

Background

History has shown that technological innovation can have negative and unexpected knock-on effects. Take plastic, it’s in use so widely because of its strength, flexibility and durability, but those same characteristics have created a truly global pollution problem. Our project will use life-cycle assessment to examine decarbonisation across key industrial sectors – cement, steel and chemical manufacture – so we can identify and predict unintended consequences before they occur.

Professor Adam Hawkes

Professor Adam Hawkes

Principal Investigator
Sustainable Gas Institute,
Imperial College London

Project Team

Dr Jasmin Cooper

Aim

Highlight the key aims of your project.

  • Achieve a better understanding of the wider environmental impacts from decarbonising different industrial clusters.
  • To compare decarbonised UK domestic production with international alternatives and evaluate the benefits.
  • Develop spatial and temporal mapping to identify how emissions might change for different supply chain decarbonisation pathways.

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Meet the Team

 

Dr Jasmin Cooper

Dr Jasmin Cooper

Dr Jasmin Cooper

Imperial College London

 

Dr Jasmin Cooper

Dr Jasmin Cooper

Dr Jasmin Cooper

Imperial College London

Planned Outputs

  • A life cycle analysis paper draft for submission to journal
  • A characterisation paper draft for submission to journal
  • A conference paper published
  • A Report for policymakers of pros and cons of decarbonisation regulations and tools