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A critique on the UK’s net zero strategy
Before the Covid-19 pandemic UK passed net-zero emission law legislation to become the first major economy in the world to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. Following the UK’s legislation to reach net-zero emissions, a long-term strategy for transition to a net-zero target was publishe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9812662/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.103003 |
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author | Masoud Sajjadian, Seyed |
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description | Before the Covid-19 pandemic UK passed net-zero emission law legislation to become the first major economy in the world to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. Following the UK’s legislation to reach net-zero emissions, a long-term strategy for transition to a net-zero target was published in 2021. The strategy is a technology-led and with a top-down approach. The intention is to reach the target over the next three decades. The document targets seven sectors to reduce emissions and include a wide range of policies and innovations for decarbonization. This paper aims to accomplish a much needed review of the strategy in heat and buildings part and cover the key related areas in future buildings standard, heat pumps and use of hydrogen as elaborated in the strategy. For that purpose, this research reviews key themes in the policy, challenges, recent advancement and future possibilities. It provides an insight on the overall development toward sustainability and decarbonization of built environment in the UK by 2050. A foresight model, Future Wheels is also used to visualize the findings from the review and provide a clear picture of the potential impact of the policy. |
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spelling | pubmed-98126622023-01-05 A critique on the UK’s net zero strategy Masoud Sajjadian, Seyed Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments Review Article Before the Covid-19 pandemic UK passed net-zero emission law legislation to become the first major economy in the world to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. Following the UK’s legislation to reach net-zero emissions, a long-term strategy for transition to a net-zero target was published in 2021. The strategy is a technology-led and with a top-down approach. The intention is to reach the target over the next three decades. The document targets seven sectors to reduce emissions and include a wide range of policies and innovations for decarbonization. This paper aims to accomplish a much needed review of the strategy in heat and buildings part and cover the key related areas in future buildings standard, heat pumps and use of hydrogen as elaborated in the strategy. For that purpose, this research reviews key themes in the policy, challenges, recent advancement and future possibilities. It provides an insight on the overall development toward sustainability and decarbonization of built environment in the UK by 2050. A foresight model, Future Wheels is also used to visualize the findings from the review and provide a clear picture of the potential impact of the policy. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2023-03 2023-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9812662/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.103003 Text en Crown Copyright © 2023 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Masoud Sajjadian, Seyed A critique on the UK’s net zero strategy |
title | A critique on the UK’s net zero strategy |
title_full | A critique on the UK’s net zero strategy |
title_fullStr | A critique on the UK’s net zero strategy |
title_full_unstemmed | A critique on the UK’s net zero strategy |
title_short | A critique on the UK’s net zero strategy |
title_sort | critique on the uk’s net zero strategy |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9812662/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.103003 |
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