Connected, complex, and carbonized: The country archetypes of the petrochemicals sector
Resource Efficiency as an environmental performance metric for industry: Exergetic analysis of a clinker manufacturing plant
A Spatiotemporal Environmental Sustainability Assessment Model for Deep and Large-scale Open-pit Copper Mines
Value addition for who? Challenges to local participation in downstream critical mineral ventures in Zambia
Introducing Mat-dp model tools
The world is in urgent need of greater energy efficiency improvements. These are the findings from the latest International Energy Agency’s Energy Efficiency Market Report 2018. Matteo Craglia...
Both Leonardo Paoli and Karla Cervantes from the Resource Efficiency Collective contributed towards the latest edition of the International Energy Agency’s Global Electric Vehicle Outlook publication. Read more...
After applying for and obtaining a grant in the scheme of “In Search of Good Energy Policy” – a multidisciplinary group looking to improve energy policy, I embarked...
As global demand for resources and materials increases, understanding the supply chains and material flows is critical in the capability for the European economy to remain competitive. With...
Three members of the Refficiency Collective attended the ICHEME Conference on International Sustainable Production and Consumption. The event was held in Manchester on the 4th and 5th of...
Nothing stimulates creativity and innovation in the area of water resource efficiency like drought. While we usually hear about the negative impacts of drought, we don’t often see...
The fastest growing use of energy in the buildings sector is space cooling, which tripled between 1990 and 2016. Left unchecked, global energy use on space cooling is...
Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions ‘solar power’, is an array of bluish photovoltaic (PV) panels, often visible on residential rooftops. (more…)
Diesel engine emissions (NOx) and laughing gas (N2O) may be denoted similarly, but the resource implications associated with their release as pollutants are quite different.
Book review. Another signal markets harm as well as help: externalities, inequality and now, Phishing for Phools. George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press 2015.
