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SUMMARY:'Securing a Safe Climate' by Julian Allwood
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: \nJoining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register\nJoining us ON-Line – click this zoom link \nWill Government-led Climate-tech be sufficient\, or do we need something else? \nClimate policy to date has largely prioritised technology innovation\, supported by government funding for both development and deployment.  This has led to exciting developments at lab scale\, but insufficient progress: global emissions are still rising. A detailed survey of ten major engineering projects in the UK shows that the timelines of the required deployment projects are long\, not just because of complex construction\, but because the processes of pre-construction (planning\, stakeholder dialogue\, regulatory compliance\, public funding\, contracting\, etc.) usually take more than twice as long as construction. \nMeanwhile\, the most recent advice of the Climate Change Committee to the government recommends a tenfold expansion of spending on “Net Zero”\, to exceed the current defence budget\, and politically this looks extremely unlikely.  As a result\, it is now virtually certain that government-led innovation and deployment will not be enough to make a safe climate. \nThe talk will review this evidence in detail\, in order to examine the consequences: if the government cannot act sufficiently forcefully\, for example to reverse growth in demand for flying\, then we need other agents of change\, including all of us personally and at work; if new technologies cannot remove the problem of emissions\, then we must instead use existing technologies differently\, creating a different and exciting opportunity for entrepreneurship and innovation; if public support for more radical policy change or more participative solutions is insufficient\, then we need to make the harms of unmitigated climate change more visible. \nAbout the Speaker\nJulian Allwood
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/securing-a-safe-climate-by-julian-allwood/
LOCATION:SHEFFIELD Crowne Plaza Royal Victoria\, Victoria Station Road\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S4 7YE
CATEGORIES:Shed Talks (Newcomen Online),UK - South Yorkshire Branch
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