As the need to tackle the climate emergency becomes ever more critical, efforts are under way to develop potential solutions. One of the key challenges is how to remove carbon emissions from the global economy – a subject that researchers at the University of Derby are leading the way in.
“Zero carbon” is one of six academic research themes at the University of Derby, and within that field is carbon economics, or “carbonomics”, an emerging discipline that studies the balance between the economic costs of addressing climate change and the economic opportunities of transitioning to a low-carbon economy.
