U.K. proposes Fourth Carbon Budget
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vernment, such as industry fellowship programs. Making the vision a reality will require investments from the private sector, academia, professional societies, and the federal government. “This initiative is an ‘all-hands on deck’ effort. For this to be successful it will require proactive leadership and creative thinking from the entire materials science community. Our goal is to champion the best ideas while continuing to catalyze and seed new efforts in support of this vision,” he said.
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he U.K. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne announced to Parliament in May that the U.S. Government would accept the recommendations of the Committee on Climate Change on the 4th Carbon Budget (2023–2027) in full. The Committee released a proposal to cut carbon emissions by 50% from 1990 levels by 2025, putting the United Kingdom on track to meeting the 2050 target (an 80% reduction in emissions). It will limit emissions over the budget period to 1950 MTCO2e across all sectors of the economy. The Committee said that renewable energy should make a major contribution to decarbonizing the U.K. economy over the next decades. Conclusions are set out in the Committee’s Renewable Energy Review, released last May. The review highlights a range of renewable energy technologies that could become competitive in the future, including electricity generation from wind and marine, air and ground source heat pumps, and the use of bioenergy for heat generation. Given sustainability concerns (e.g., the tension between use of land for growth of biofuels, feedstock, and food) a cautious approach to the use of biofuels in surface transport is appropriate, according to the review. Pursuing alternatives to decarbonizing transport is therefore an urgent priority, said the review. In response to the committee’s caution regarding biofuels, Duncan Eggar,
The white paper, Materials Genome Initiative for Global Competitiveness, was prepared by an ad hoc group of the Office of Science and Technology Policy‘s National Science and Technology Council. For more information and to download the paper, visit the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s website, www.whitehouse.gov/administration/ eop/ostp. Kendra Redmond
such as offshore wind and marine generation through the 2020s. These commitments should then be implemented under new electricity market arrangements. Chair of the Committee on Climate Change, Lord Adair Turner said, “The focus now should be creating a stable investment climate for renewables, making longer term commitments to support less mature technologies, and putting in place incentives to deliver significantly increased investment in renewable power and heat generation required over the next decade.” Following the release of the Committee’s review, Huhne said, “Today’s announcement will give investors the certainty they need to invest in clean energy. It puts Britain at the leading edge of a new global industrial transformation as well as making good our determina
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