News Article - 15 January 2009
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A wide and varied range of low carbon technologies - which could include carbonaccounting software - will be required to allow people to begin accounting for carbon emissions, one industry expert has asserted.

Speaking at a Royal Society meeting, Professor Paul Elkins, professor of energy and environment policy at King's College London, explained that the "optimistic hope" was that large quantities of improvements in energy efficiency could be taken up at a low or medium cost.

"The sorts of technologies [people] are thinking of are more efficient vehicles, nuclear, gas-propelled substitution, carbon capturing and storage," he added.

Even changes in working environments and lifestyle, such as turning the heating down, could result in money being saved, Professor Elkins explained.

The Royal Society is the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth and aims to be at the cutting edge of scientific progress.

Meanwhile, according to a recent Press Association report, Conservative Party leader David Cameron is to set out plans to make the UK a world leader in green technologies.

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