In March this year, the UK Government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, published an Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy. Of the approximately 370 megatonnes (Mt) CO2e (‘e’ is a suffix indicating CO2 equivalence) produced by the UK, about 70 Mt CO2e ( about one fifth) is a result of industrial activity. By 2030 these emissions need to reduce to 40 Mt CO2e and by 2040 to 10 Mt CO2e.
To state the obvious, this will not be easy, but work within the Made Smarter Innovation Challenge during the past year, points toward the UK as being perfectly positioned to rise to the challenge. Dr Ben Farmer, UK Research and Innovation, Made Smarter Innovation Deputy Challenge Director explains how. Two thirds of industrial CO2e abatement…
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