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Creating Opportunity: Low carbon jobs in an interconnected world

If governments are bold and ambitious in developing markets for low-carbon technologies, they will maximise the economic benefits and stand a greater chance of creating more jobs, says this paper o...
  • ippr published this 09 / 28 / 2009
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Renewable Energy in Buildings - Intelligent Energy EU Programme 2009

Renewable energy in buildings. Make your building smile. 25 projects funded by the Intelligent Energy – Europe programme Renewable energy. Project report N ° 9 – April 2009. Small-scale renewable ...
  • gioscribd published this 09 / 19 / 2009
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A communicatons guide for mainstreaming lower-carbon behaviour

This guide provides 10 principles for making climate change communications more effective. They have been written following research by ippr with an influential segment of the group of people who a...
  • ippr published this 09 / 17 / 2009
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Consumer Power: How the public thinks lower-carbon behaviour could be made mainstream

Beyond the environmentally inclined, there is a very substantial part of the public who are doing very little in response to communications and policies designed to promote behaviours and choices t...
  • ippr published this 09 / 17 / 2009
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Plan B? The prospects for personal carbon trading

This report examines the cases for and against personal carbon trading as a policy to help reduce personal carbon emissions in the UK, and sets out the conditions under which this approach might be...
  • ippr published this 09 / 09 / 2009
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2050 Vision: How can the UK play its part in avoiding dangerous climate change?

This report aims to provide a rigorous study of the feasibility and costs of reaching an 80 per cent carbon emissions reduction in the UK – something that has not been assessed until now. It draws ...
  • ippr published this 09 / 04 / 2009
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Positive Energy: Harnessing people power to prevent climate change

This is the summary of a report that aims to find more effective ways to enable and persuade people to act to reduce their contribution to this problem, suggesting policies, techniques and communic...
  • ippr published this 09 / 04 / 2009
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After the Coal Rush: Assessing policy options for coal-fired electricity generation

In 2008, Medway Council gave approval for a new coal-fired power station on the site of an existing plant at Kingsnorth. This would be the first major coal-fired power station built in the UK since...
  • ippr published this 09 / 04 / 2009
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Breaking Through on Technology: Overcoming the Barriers to the Development and Wide Deployment of Lo

This study for the Global Climate Netork suggests that effective development and ‘transfer’ of low-carbon technology requires a complex combination of factors. It draws on primary research and revi...
  • ippr published this 09 / 04 / 2009
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Politica energetica svizzera verso il 2050_Bernasconi et Bernasconi_2009

Le relazioni tra lo sviluppo di una società e la produzione, rispettivamente il consumo di energia, sono molteplici. Si pensi ad esempio a come l’organizzazione territoriale influisce sulle esigenz...
  • gioscribd published this 05 / 13 / 2009
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SOLAR INSTALLATION AT EL DORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL_Los Angeles, CA, USA_2009.

SOLAR INSTALLATION AT EL DORADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Los Angeles, CA, USA). El Dorado Avenue Elementary School’s gonna go grid neutral. Last week, the LAUSD school started installing a solar power s...
  • gioscribd published this 05 / 26 / 2009
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Blueprints for the Magnetism Powered Generator (R2D3)

!!!!Last draft before making the 3rd revision. Please tell me any errors I need to correct and anything you think I should add to this document!!!! These are the blueprints on a non tested ide...
  • Brian Hill published this 01 / 27 / 2009
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My Paper on the Non-tested Theory of Magnetism Powered Generator

This is my white paper on the workings and visions of my magnetic electrical generator. This generator idea is to run a generator that uses magnetism to turn the generator while magnets also genera...
  • Brian Hill published this 01 / 03 / 2009
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Blueprints for the Magnetism Powered Generator

These are the blueprints on a non tested idea of that since magnets create electricity and can repel each other that it can be used or be used with a bit of super magnetism to create a generator t...
  • Brian Hill published this 01 / 03 / 2009
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Lean Energy Toolkit

This Lean and Energy Toolkit offers Lean implementers practical strategies and techniques for improving Lean results—waste elimination, quality enhancement, and delivery of value to customers—while...
  • tinyplankton published this 11 / 10 / 2008
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Code for Sustainable Homes

Code for Sustainable Homes A step-change in sustainable home building practice www.communities.gov.uk community, opportunity, prosperity December 2006 On 5th May 2006 the responsibilities of th...
  • sustenergy published this 11 / 27 / 2008
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Code for Sustainable Homes Techguide

Code for Sustainable Homes Technical guide October 2008 www.communities.gov.uk community, opportunity, prosperity Code for Sustainable Homes Technical Guide October 2008 October 2008 Departmen...
  • sustenergy published this 11 / 27 / 2008
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Museums Handbook

The Museums handbook is based on the results obtained during the implementation of the ENERGIE demonstration project “Museums - Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Retrofitted and New Museum Bu...
  • gioscribd published this 10 / 06 / 2008
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SUSTAINABLE BIOENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN UEMOA MEMBER COUNTRIES

October, 2008 Sustainable Bioenergy Development in UEMOA Member Countries Foreword Foreword In the arid and semi-arid regions of Africa that encompass most countries of the West African Econom...
  • sustenergy published this 11 / 06 / 2008
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Social acceptability of climate change policies

Which segments of society ‘win’ as a result of climate change policies? Actors generally support the principle of reduced emissions through decarbonising fuels, and many are convinced that reducing...
  • sustenergy published this 11 / 05 / 2008
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