Project Researcher
University of Leeds
Paul is a Senior Research Fellow at the School or Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, UK. His research addresses on an urgent global question: can we decouple energy use from economic growth to meet both climate and economic goals? He focusses on studying the interaction between energy use and society at the useful stage of the energy provision chain using exergy-based analysis, where exergy is ‘available energy’. This emerging field is producing new insights into the significant role of energy in economic growth, and in turn the decoupling problem. He co-leads the international Exergy Economics research network
Materials & Products
Publications
- Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe
- Socio-macroeconomic impacts of implementing different post-Brexit UK energy reduction targets to 2030
- Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: a review of the evidence and its implications
- Decomposing the drivers of residential space cooling energy consumption in EU-28 countries using a panel data approach
- 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
- Thermodynamic efficiency gains and their role as a key ‘engine of economic growth’
- Exergy economics – new insights into energy consumption and economic growth
- Untangling the drivers of energy reduction in the UK productive sectors: Efficiency or offshoring?
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