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The role of technology in reaching net zero


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Innovation is at the heart of the prime minister’s vision for net zero. Developing and deploying new and existing technologies effectively will be critical to progress in areas including in energy, transport, housing, industry and agriculture.

The government can point to successes, like offshore wind, but progress elsewhere has been frustrated by inconsistent R&D investment, policy and regulation. It faces big choices about where and how to support green industries.

On our panel to discuss these questions were:

  • Georgia Berry, Director of Political Campaigns at OVO and former Special Adviser for Energy and Infrastructure in the No.10 Policy Unit
  • Dr Ajay Gambhir, Senior Research Fellow at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London
  • Juergen Maier, Chair of Digital Catapult and Vice Chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership

    The event was chaired by Tom Sasse, Associate Director at the Institute for Government.

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    We would like to thank the Transition to Zero Pollution initiative at Imperial College London for their support in staging this event.


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