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Bloomberg report: Urgent deployment of existing technology can get world close to net zero

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Figure 1: Energy-related emissions and net-zero carbon budget, BNEF’s Economic Transition Scenario and Net Zero Scenario (Source: BloombergNEF. Figure 2: CO2 emissions reductions from fuel combustion by measures implemented, Net Zero Scenario versus no-transition scenario. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Consultancies develop net zero 2030 routemap for UK water

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Water industry experts from Ricardo and Mott MacDonald have collaborated to create what they describe as “a pioneering strategy that will guide the UK water industry to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030.” Net zero by 2030 will be a huge team effort.”.

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Local Leaders and mayors call for power shift to meet net zero

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A communiqué signed by UK mayors and local leaders calls for a ‘power shift’ from Whitehall so that local and regional authorities can deliver Net Zero. Ensuring the new UK Infrastructure Bank has a Net Zero mandate to deliver local investment in Net Zero projects. license ).

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Planning to fail: net zero is impossible without urgent changes to planning policy, says countryside charity

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Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. No other local authority has a plan to hit net zero. Housing, transport, business and industry generate 62% of our carbon emissions.

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Battery storage first will assist Scottish utility’s net zero drive

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Scottish Water has completed work on its first large-scale battery storage project which the utility says will accelerate its drive towards net zero emissions by 2040. The ability to maximise green energy production as well as store and release this energy when we need it is a vital part of our journey to net zero. “By

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Comment: Clearer direction needed to hit net zero in construction

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Simon Richards writes about how the construction industry is taking the lead ahead of the Government when it comes to setting targets to achieve net zero in the industry. The UK Government have set a legal requirement for the UK to be Net-Zero Carbon (NZC) by 2050.

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Poor support for reaching net zero with UK hi-tech manufacturers

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New findings on critical plant and equipment data usage within the UK’s hi-tech manufacturing industries appear to reveal slower-than-expected progress toward achieving sustainability and net zero carbon reduction goals.