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Ruth Wood

University of Manchester

Current Position
Research Fellow

Role at Tyndall
Main research interests focus on emissions and energy accounting methods and models for the development of decarbonisation scenarios. Currently funded by the Sustainable Consumption Institute, Manchester on a project led by Dr Alice Bows to explore future consumer based emissions pathways. Role on this project is to work with Dr John Barrett at the Stockholm Environment Institute to develop a consumer based emissions scenario tool in order to evaluate the impact of future energy pathways and consumer behaviour on the UK's consumption based emissions.
Previous work with Tyndall includes the development of a new emissions apportionment method for aviation for application at a sub-national scale and an aviation energy model for use with stakeholders as part of the Joule Funded Aviation in the North West project led by Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr Alice Bows. PhD research to explore the co-benefits of climate change mitigation and air pollution reduction was undertaken at the Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia supervised by Drs Rachel Warren and Steve Dorling.

Research areas
Energy & emissions

Contact information

E-mail: Ruth.Wood@manchester.ac.uk

Phone: 0161 3063715

Postal Address
Tyndall Manchester
H5 Pariser Building
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

Personal website
http://researchpages.net/people/ruth-wood/

Other website
http://www.tyndall.manchester.ac.uk/people/rw.php

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The research community has highlighted for several decades the implications of greenhouse gas emissions for climate change. In response, world governments have agreed to limit global temperature change to 2°C, which requires drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. In advanced economies, a commitment to a 2°C limit generally represents a reduction of emissions of between 80-95% from the 1990 baseline. Despite this, emissions from international aviation increased by 53 % between 1990 and 2011 in those countries.

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