They may be influenced by leadership, technology and innovation as well as through the application of pressure such as a Carbon Border Tax Adjustment, whereby taxes are levied on imports from countries with no carbon price.
We have been supporting the transport and construction industries in the move towards electrification as a greener alternative to combustion engines.
This includes a great deal of work developing battery solutions for electric vehicles. Our work in electrification is complemented by the research and development undertaken in the field of materials and lightweighting for vehicle manufacturers. Lighter vehicles require less energy to power, and our aluminium expertise has been widely exploited by industry.
Lightweighting is also an integral benefit from our work with the Surflow Project , which allows for the replacement of wiring systems with a composite data highway for data transmission.
Meanwhile, in the marine sector, the Fibreship Project saw TWI collaborate on the development of composites for shipbuilding. The power sector is another area where TWI has been influential in promoting work that should offer environmental benefits.
This work ranges from developing geothermal energy solutions to addressing the challenges of offshore wind and the promotion of clean and efficient nuclear energy through small modular reactors SMR. Aside from wider government initiatives, TWI has also shown support on a more local level, including a recently launched funded innovation development scheme for SMEs in the Tees Valley, with the aim of bringing innovative products to market.
Used for power generation, they are smaller than conventional nuclear reactors. An EV is a shortened acronym for an electric vehicle. EVs are vehicles that are either partially or fully powered on electric power. Support for SMEs. Software Products. Go to Technical knowledge Search. Login Login. Members' Portal. Any GHG emissions or other activities with warming effects are fully compensated by GHG reductions or removals, or other activities with cooling effects — irrespective of the time period or the relative magnitude of emissions and removals involved.
A near synonym for GHG neutral, but climate neutral also includes non-GHG radiative forcing effects, such as land use changes with albedo effects. Not a valid end-state target, as it only refers to carbon, but a possible intermediate step. Must be specified over a declared time period, and whether removals and emissions are cumulative or represent only the time period specified.
Target is aligned with scenarios that yield a long-term warming outcome of below 1. Offsetting is typically arranged through a marketplace for carbon credits or other exchange mechanism.
May include offsetting, but also all other activities an actor makes outside its value chain that are contributions to mitigation. Required if residual emissions remain after net zero status is achieved. Includes offsetting, but also all other activities an actor makes outside its value chain that are contributions to mitigation. Potentially helpful during the transition to net zero. When a source of emissions and an emissions sink correspond in terms of their warming impact , and in terms of the timescale and durability of carbon storage.
For example, fossil carbon is stable in the lithosphere over millennia if it is not extracted and burned, therefore mitigating measures e. Although all CO2 once emitted, whether originally sourced from the lithosphere or biosphere, persists in the active carbon cycle for centuries to millennia, it may be appropriate to balance shorter-duration carbon released from biogenic carbon stocks e. The variable risks of reversal of different carbon stocks must also be considered, for example forests may suffer from unforeseen anthropogenic e.
Actions that reduce the quantity of GHGs attributable to an actor vis-a-vis a baseline. Examples include: Replacing fossil-burning power with renewable energy, reducing consumption of emissions-intensive products or inputs, avoiding damage to ecological carbon sinks, carbon capture and storage CCS , avoided emissions from deployment of renewable energy, etc. Actions that remove GHGs from the atmosphere relative to baseline. Examples include: Afforestation and reforestation, soil carbon enhancement, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage BECCS , direct air capture, mineralization, or enhanced weathering.
In addition to the above definitions, sometimes the aim is not to account for all emissions, just carbon dioxide CO2 , leading to iterations on the above definitions such as net zero carbon, zero carbon and carbon negative.
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Blog Post 20 October Environment and sustainability. How did net zero come about? This objective has been ratified by Switzerland, the EU and many other countries, under the Paris Agreement. This way humankind would be carbon neutral and global temperature would stabilise.
However, it should be noted: The later this goal is reached, the higher the negative emissions need to be.
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