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THREAD 1/8: #NetZeroCarbonPolicy is our new thought leadership project, focusing on how the UK can build an innovation-friendly, economy-wide policy framework to achieve Net Zero.

8⃣ recommendations for policymakers ...

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The 1st report - Accelerating to #NetZero - sets out how a sector-led approach to carbon policy can accelerate progress during the 2020s. 2/8

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#NetZero Carbon Policies include any policies that require or incentivise action to reduce or remove emissions, including:

✅ Pricing
✅ Regulation
✅ Subsidies
✅ Standards 3/8

With only 30 years before the UK must legally reach #NetZero. All major emitting sectors – travel, heating, manufacturing, power, and farming – will need to change radically to get as close as possible to zero emissions by 2050. 4/8

Our work last year on Rethinking Decarbonisation Incentives showed how current policies are too uneven and weak to achieve this. 5/8

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The @FT based their in-depth report: 'The mess of Britain's carbon taxes' on this project. 6/8

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We need major new policy reforms to drive both the supply of, and demand for, low, zero, and negative carbon technologies across the whole economy. 7/8

8⃣ recommendations for policymakers .. to initiate a sector-led approach to an economy-wide carbon policy framework:

During 2020-21, through the #NetZeroCarbonPolicy thought leadership project, we will be carrying out deeper dives into: 8/8