Carbon Vision

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Carbon Vision is a £14M partnership between the Carbon Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, additional support has been provided by the Economic and Social and Natural Environment Research Councils. Carbon Vision comprises a coordinated package of university-based research studies to explore how we are going to make the transition to a low carbon economy.


Achieving this vision will require radical, innovative thinking. Carbon Vision is fostering this by building broad partnerships that will help to lay the foundations of a low carbon economy. It seeks to stimulate a step change in thinking that will radically improve the way the world thinks about this new era. The various university consortia supported by Carbon Vision bring together expertise from many disciplines and enables the Carbon Vision partnership to develop unique research programmes that explore how to devise low carbon options for the future.

The activities we support through the Carbon Vision partnership are:

  • The Carbon Vision Leadership Programme:to support outstanding scientists and engineers as they become world leaders in low carbon research and development.
  • Carbon Vision Buildings: showing how to achieve 50% carbon reduction in the carbon 'footprint' of new and existing buildings by 2030.
  • Carbon Vision Industry:to provide the tools required to develop step change reduction in the lifetime carbon emissions associated with basic products and their manufacture.
  • SUPERGEN:to extend and expand the EPSRC SUPERGEN programme on meeting the challenges of providing sustainable power generation and supply.