Earth Notes: General Bibliography (barrett2022demand)

• [barrett2022demand] Barrett, John and Pye, Steve and Betts-Davies, Sam and Broad, Oliver and Price, James et al. Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero-emission targets in the United Kingdom (accessed 2023-01-17), 2022-08, Nature Energy, volume 7, ISSN 2058-7546, doi:10.1038/s41560-022-01057-y, article/pages 726–735 (article) (BibTeX).
  abstract

  In recent years, global studies have attempted to understand the contribution that energy demand reduction could make to climate mitigation efforts. Here we develop a bottom-up, whole-system framework that comprehensively estimates the potential for energy demand reduction at a country level. Replicable for other countries, our framework is applied to the case of the United Kingdom where we find that reductions in energy demand of 52% by 2050 compared with 2020 levels are possible without compromising on citizens' quality of life. This translates to annual energy demands of 4
  0~nbsp;GJ per person, compared with the current Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development average of 11
  6~nbsp;GJ and the global average of 5
  5~nbsp;GJ. Our findings show that energy demand reduction can reduce reliance on high-risk carbon dioxide removal technologies, has moderate investment requirements and allows space for ratcheting up climate ambition. We conclude that national climate policy should increasingly develop and integrate energy demand reduction measures.
  note

  [UKTM/TIMES and NHM (National Household Model). Quote: "[For] ... the United Kingdom, it is possible to halve energy demand by 2050 without negatively affecting citizens' quality of life. This results in a per capita energy use in the United Kingdom in 2050 of around 4
  0~nbsp;GJ compared with a present global average of 5
  5~nbsp;GJ per capita."]