Theme Lead
University of Leeds
John heads the CREDS Theme on “Industry, Materials and Products”. He is a Professor in Energy and Climate Policy in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds. His research interests include energy demand, resource productivity, energy and economy modelling, carbon accounting and exploring the transition to a low carbon future. John was the Director of the Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials and Products (CIE-MAP) and a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre. John has been an advisor to the UK Government on the development of carbon footprint standards and is responsible for providing the UK Government with the headline indicator of “Consumption-based Emissions”. He has supported BEIS on energy demand modelling and the industrial strategy and DEFRA on resource productivity policy. John was also a lead author for the International Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III.
Materials & Products
Publications
- The missed opportunity – ignoring the evidence on energy demand reduction
- New times, new policies? Policies to change energy use in the context of zero carbon
- Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero-emission targets in the United Kingdom
- Policy options for a net-zero emissions UK steel sector
- Reducing the UK’s food footprint: Demand-side action for more palatable food emissions
- Technology and material efficiency scenarios for net zero emissions in the UK steel sector
- Socio-macroeconomic impacts of implementing different post-Brexit UK energy reduction targets to 2030
- The role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK
- Positive low energy futures briefing
- Resource efficiency scenarios for the UK: A technical report
- Towards net zero nutrition: the contribution of demand-side change to mitigating UK food emissions
- Net Zero: why resource efficiency holds the answers
- What structural change is needed for a post-growth economy: A framework of analysis and empirical evidence
- Transforming UK Government energy and resources policy
- Supporting the Climate Change Committee
- Decomposing the drivers of residential space cooling energy consumption in EU-28 countries using a panel data approach
- Three-scope carbon emission inventories of global cities
- Reducing inequality resulting from UK low-carbon policy
- A data strategy to promote the clean growth of UK industries
- Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options
- Structural change for a post-growth economy: Investigating the relationship between embodied energy intensity and labour productivity
- Socio-macroeconomic impacts of meeting new build and retrofit UK building energy targets to 2030: a MARCO-UK modelling study
- Report on the socio-macroeconomic impacts of the UK Labour Party’s renewable and low carbon energy targets in the ’30 by 2030′ UK Energy Plan
- Creating a clean steel fund: call for evidence
- Consultation: developing a national food strategy – call for evidence
- Shifting the focus: 3 Industry, materials and products
- Thermodynamic efficiency gains and their role as a key ‘engine of economic growth’
- Bridging the climate mitigation gap with economy-wide material productivity
- Untangling the drivers of energy reduction in the UK productive sectors: Efficiency or offshoring?
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