The Centre for Alternative Technology explains how their Zero Carbon Britain reports allows us to imagine an entirely
possible low carbon future.
Not exact matches
Thanks to our Ministers, who overcame resistance from right - wing Tories, the Bill does make a provision to allow a target to be set in the
future — but as industry itself, and the Government's independent advisors, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), have made clear, investors in
low -
carbon energy need more certainty than this
possible future promise before they go ahead and invest billions in new renewable energy installations.
Among its goals, the coalition of countries, including the U.S., wants an agreement that the world must aim as soon as
possible to hold global warming to 1.5 - degree Celsius and work toward a long - term
low -
carbon future
And so their pathways study concludes that «perhaps the most important priority of government policy at present is to ensure that, to the extent
possible, the options for the full range of technologies are kept open, so that they all have an opportunity to be commercialised if their development in the meanwhile singles them out as one of the more competitive
low carbon technologies of the
future».
The basic message is that a transition to a
low carbon future is
possible, and it explores some of the scenarios that might get us there - but, unlike the US study mentioned above, it does not back any one.
These Fortune 500 companies recognize that their
future business model depends upon the shift to
low carbon technologies and efficiencies made
possible through a national program of required emission reductions.