Meeting the UK climate change challenge: the contribution of resource efficiency

This is the UK’s first research into how resource efficiency can help the UK meet its climate change targets. It shows that making better use of our natural resources could contribute as much as 10% of the target reduction in UK domestic GHG emissions.

In terms of consumer emissions (including imports), resource efficiency could reduce these by 8% by 2050.

Consumption behaviours dominate what can be done on the production side. The report identifies Lifetime Optimisation, Servicisation and Reman & Repair as strategies whose potential exceeds that of waste reduction, recycling and lean manufacturing by a factor of four.

From Center for remanufacturing and reuse, UK