Innovating to Net Zero report out today
✔️Net Zero by 2050 is possible with innovation & scale up
1⃣0⃣0⃣s of cost-optimised pathways to 2050 modelled with trade-offs across the whole system between ..
🔌Low Carbon Technology
🌲Land Use
✈️Lifestyle
es.catapult.org.uk/news/net-zero-…
✔️Net Zero by 2050 is possible with innovation & scale up
1⃣0⃣0⃣s of cost-optimised pathways to 2050 modelled with trade-offs across the whole system between ..
🔌Low Carbon Technology
🌲Land Use
✈️Lifestyle
es.catapult.org.uk/news/net-zero-…
Whole system thinking looks at all combinations & interactions between: a top-down technology focused & bottom-up behaviour focused approaches.
Key findings:
1⃣ Unlike 80% target, Net Zero narrows the set of decarbonisation pathways & leaves little slack for fossil fuels.
Key findings:
1⃣ Unlike 80% target, Net Zero narrows the set of decarbonisation pathways & leaves little slack for fossil fuels.
2⃣ Net Zero success depends on support for innovation & scale. A techno-focused path will need:
✅Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage to offset emissions
✅Electricity may need to double - wind power & advanced nuclear are key
✅Hydrogen at levels of today’s electricity.
✅Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage to offset emissions
✅Electricity may need to double - wind power & advanced nuclear are key
✅Hydrogen at levels of today’s electricity.
3⃣ Net Zero before 2050 is unlikely without highly speculative changes to lifestyle, land use & low carbon technology, such as:
❌Aviation demand & livestock emissions fall to zero
❌Decarbonising power, heat & transport at a rate that pushes against the bounds of plausibility.
❌Aviation demand & livestock emissions fall to zero
❌Decarbonising power, heat & transport at a rate that pushes against the bounds of plausibility.
