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Sparking Change: Electricity consumption, carbon emissions and working time

Research output: Working paper

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Publication date13/03/2020
PublisherAutonomy
Volume4
ISBN (print)2515-9852
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This paper is an important intervention into both the debate around working time, but also the debate around the green economy and any plan to decarbonise the UK. Becoming a green, sustainable society will require a number of strategies – a shorter working week being just one of them. Nonetheless, as Denes Csala’s paper and other research has shown, working time reduction is a relatively cheap, yet high-impact strategy for governments to adopt. Meeting our carbon reduction targets is not up for debate – this is the planet that we live on after all. We hope that nuanced research such as this can help track a path as to how to get there efficiently and in a way that works for the country as a whole