Inspiring Business by Sharing Success
Added by Love Business East Midlands | 9 November 2020
The project will work with stakeholders from academia and industry to produce a shared vision on what Is required to deliver a UK net zero future in the short-term (the next ten years) and the longer-term (from 2030 onwards). It will also identify and clarify what further research is needed to help underpin a net zero future.
The project has been commissioned by UKRI and focuses on the role of research in the challenge to transition the UK to net zero and will apply a whole energy systems approach because of the need to understand the costs and benefits of different technologies, systems design and decarbonisation.
It will feature a deliberative process by running a series of workshops with leading UK academics and key stakeholders from the public, private and third sector focusing on the areas of decarbonisation, energy demand, carbon capture and removal, and the social and economic implications of net zero.
Cultivate, who specialise in working with organisations who are delivering innovative low-carbon energy solutions are partnering with The Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds and the School of Psychology and Understanding Risk Research Group at Cardiff University on the project.
Commenting on the project, Dr Mike Colechin, founder of Cultivate Innovation said:
"To achieve net zero the UK must act now because we need rapid greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the short-term to avoid a climate crisis. Academic support and frameworks are essential to provide the best available scientific evidence to Inform decision making. This project will work with leading UK academics to collate their thinking and research to articulate a consensus to help avoid decisions being made without relying on such evidence.
"With this project we are seeking to ensure that the UKRI Energy & Decarbonisation Programme has the maximum opportunity to Inform and guide the response of UK decision makers to climate change. We will apply a whole systems approach and produce a shared vision outlining a narrative for net zero in the short-term, the next decade, and for the longer-term, from 2030 onwards
"Our aim for the project is to provide decision makers involved in net zero with the best academic evidence available to create an environment whereby rapid but above all robust decisions made in the UK are informed by the most advanced research on climate mitigation."