What evidence is needed about the use of new technologies - e.g. new and emerging
energy technologies, use of novel materials, new manufacturing processes, etc. - to
develop an appropriate, effective strategy for their better regulation, enabling their
rapid and safe introduction?
Background
To apply our expert knowledge and capability to enable businesses to understand both known and unknown risk and to innovate safely as we transition to net zero.
To develop our understanding of the future asset base and the role key stakeholders (e.g. designers, manufacturers, operators, etc.) play in managing risk and maintaining safe operations. To work with industry to prevent major incidents around new technologies and applications that come with the government’s commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through working with others to understand changing risks and challenges to ensure regulatory framework remains fit for purpose. We recognise that development of net zero technologies will present challenges that businesses and society are less familiar with. We will work to make sure that health and safety legislation does not prevent safe innovation and progress. To help manage risk, we will focus our attention on the breadth of activities that net zero encompasses. This will provide evidence to inform any policy, regulatory and operational changes needed to support business. We will achieve this by working partnerships with stakeholders, communication activities, regulatory interventions and enforcement. To bring together science, policy, and regulation, we will help businesses in Great Britain establish themselves as world leaders in net zero.
Next steps
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Source
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Foundation Industries Ventures (FIVe) S&IN
The Foundation Industries (FIs) metals, glass, ceramics, cement, chemicals, and paper are vital to the UK manufacturing and construction sectors. Approximately 75% of the materials we see around us have been made by one ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: GLASS FUTURES LTD
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on accelerating innovation pathways and regulatory barriers in the Foundation Industries, but does not specifically address the use of new technologies for better regulation.
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Inter-disciplinary Engineering Approach to Systems (IdEAS)
Emerging technologies are science-based innovations with the potential to create, transform or obsolete entire industries. Examples range from 'small-tech' materials constructed at the atomic level through to 'large-tech...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially answers the question by providing an understanding of the underpinning systems of emerging technologies, but does not specifically address the need for evidence to develop a strategy for better regulation.
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Champion - Industrial Decarbonisation Research & Innovation Centre (IDRIC)
Adopting the Committee on Climate Change's recommendation to net zero emissions by 2050 demonstrates a clear commitment to leadership in the face of climate emergency. If this is to be achieved, decarbonising the industr...
Funded by: ISCF
Lead research organisation: Heriot-Watt University
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially answers the question by focusing on decarbonisation of the industrial sector, but does not specifically address the need for evidence about the use of new technologies for better regulation.