£50m Centre aims to meet global low carbon challenge
Montag, 12 Oktober 2009
The Centre for Low Carbon Futures is a joint initiative between the universities, led by Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York, and regional development agency Yorkshire Forward.
Its goal is to help build a competitive, sustainable and carbon efficient regional economy, while providing climate change strategies of national and international significance.
The Centre aims to improve the understanding of the impact and costs of climate change and identify ways in which organisations and communities can adapt to meet these challenges.
The Centre will also develop innovative technologies and methodologies for carbon reduction in partnership with regional business and industry, helping the region to meet its own emissions reduction targets.
Yorkshire Forward, the region’s development agency, is ambitious about creating a low-carbon economy with the Yorkshire region the only one in the UK with an agreed target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - by 25% by 2016.
The Centre has identified its first four pilot research projects, covering the regional economics of climate change, low carbon supply chains, biorenewables and carbon capture technology. As a main energy producer for the UK, the Centre for Low Carbon Futures will put Yorkshire at the forefront of low carbon technologies.
“It will allow Yorkshire and Humber’s businesses to address low carbon challenges and access cutting edge solutions which will help them exploit the opportunities arising from climate change” said Tom Riordan, chief executive of Yorkshire Forward.
“In turn this will help build a competitive, sustainable and carbon efficient regional economy.”