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.
Associated Outputs
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.
More Detail
Meet the Team
Dr Jasmin Cooper
Dr Jasmin Cooper
Imperial College London
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
