A great many things have changed since the Centre for Alternative Technology launched the first Zero Carbon Britain report in June 2007...
Many people are only now grasping the serious nature of our present human predicament. Senior experts, scientists, NGO’s and political leaders are beginning to appreciate that the most recent evidence on both climate security and energy security reveals a situation more urgent than had been expected, even by those who have been following it closely for decades. In addition, the crisis in the global economy has painfully illustrated the cost and consequences of realising there are problems in the pipeline and not taking the required action in time.
In May 2010 the Centre for Alternative Technology launches its new report ZeroCarbonBritain 2030 - a policy and technology scenario designed to expand on the detail and answer questions raised by our initial report. Through integrating cutting-edge findings from leading experts and researchers from a variety of organisations and disciplines, ZeroCarbonBritain 2030 explores just what it is Britain must do to meet the scale and speed of the challenges defined by the most recent climate science.
A great many solutions to climate security are the same as solutions to energy security and to long-term economic recovery. A flagship of a new economic approach, ZeroCarbonBritain 2030 will show how we can re-focus the ingenuity of the finance sector on the actual challenges at hand. Rather than residing precariously at the end of the peaking pipeline of polluting fossil fuel imports, Britain can head an indigenous renewable energy supply chain powering a lean, re-localised economy. Every field, forest, island, river, coastline, barn or building holds the potential to become an energy and revenue generator, with different technologies appropriate to every scale or location.
ZeroCarbonBritain 2030 clearly illustrates how the parallel de-carbonisation and re-vitalisation of the UK economy would work, creating a single document of immediate relevance to policy-makers everywhere.
