Low Carbon Supply Chains
The aim of this project is to develop a balanced green supply chain system. A decision support tool will be created, which considers both carbon accounting and soft measures for use in evaluating targeted interventions and their impacts on economic, environmental and social performance from a supply chain perspective. Read more...
Biorenewable Fuels and Materials
Much of the debate around climate change has focused on reducing energy in order to limit greenhouse gas emissions, however there is a further need to reduce the reliance on a wider set of products produced from the fossil fuel refining process. Our aim is to optimise the commercial potential of biorefinery crops by maximising the value, volume and range of materials that can be produced by using all parts of the crop, whilst at the same time minimising the impact of the crop on the environment. Read more...
Low Carbon Economy
This project will strengthen regional capacities to anticipate, understand and respond to the risks and impacts that are associated with both climate change itself and with the policies that are being adopted in response to it. It will also build our understanding of the relationship between climate change and the associated policies and the regional economy, and it will build regional capacities to influence this relationship through targeted forms of policy intervention. Read more...
Energy Conversion / CCS
The activities undertaken by this two year project will include the design, installation and running of an O2 generation plant in the Low Carbon Combustion Centre at Beighton in Sheffield and modification of the existing combustion plant to evaluate this technology and the modelling of exhaust waste heat recovery Read more...
Yorkshire and Humber Region to lead UK in Carbon Capture and Storage technology
28th July 2010
Industry-Academic collaboration key to exploring and developing low-carbon technologies Read more...
Energy2B - European Energy Innovation Programme
14th July 2010
An international energy innovation programme supported and co-funded by the European Union. Read more...
Sheffield E-Futures Doctoral Training Centre Autumn Conference
13th-14th September 2010
Students from the Sheffield E-Futures Doctoral Training will be presenting the results of their mini-projects, future PhD projects and the Carbon Challenge at their autumn conference in the Carlton Park Hotel, Rotherham Read more...
£400m Energy Park Plan Unveiled for the Banks of the River Humber
8th July 2010
PLANS have been unveiled for a £400m waterside energy park in the region which could create 20,000 jobs. Read more...
Profitable, Sustainable, Ethical - the Future of Global Logistics
9th July 2010
Hull University Business School has brought together academic and industry representatives to share their experiences of managing sustainable, ethical and profitable supply chains at this, the school’s annual logistics conference. Read more...
A Low Carbon Future - Summer Conference
24th June 2010
The students of the Doctoral Training Centre in Low Carbon Technologies at Leeds University invite you to join a conference on the subject of the move towards a low carbon future. Read more...
UN IPCC Selects Four SEI Experts for Next Report
24th June 2010
Among the lead authors of the Fifth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Read more...
Fuel for Thought - meeting the energy challenges of the 21st Century
17th June 2010
The Royal Society 2010 Duncan Davies Medal lecture with Dr Sue E Ion Read more...
Transport KTN Sustainable Freight Transport Workshop
15th June 2010
The workshop, titled “Environmental road mapping for Sustainable Freight” aims to follow on from the Technology Strategy Board Informed Logistics intervention. Read more...
How should business react to carbon change? Yorkshire shows the way
25th January 2010
The Centre for Low Carbon Futures official launch in the Palace of Westminister. Read more...
Carbon Capture and Storage Workshop
23rd July 2010
CLCF aims to establish a major RD&D programme to support the development of CCS. This workshop brings together academia, business and other stakeholders to identify key research gaps in CCS, and evaluate how research programmes and facilities at Yorkshire's Universities can support business and policy making communities in this development Read more...
Offshore Wind Workshop
17th May 2010
By Invitation Only. 'Industry driving research towards a viable offshore wind technology and sustainable economic development' Read more...
CLCF Project Management Group Meeting
13th May 2010
By Invitation Only. Project management meeting for CLCF team to share updates from all projects and future plans for the Centre. Read more...
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