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Achieving Net Zero

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Achieving Net Zero What are the positive and negative environmental impacts of increasing renewable energy production (wind, solar, geothermal, and so on) and other actions taken to decarbonise the economy? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What are the impacts of greenhouse gas removals and negative emission technologies on climate and the environment? What are the trade-offs of negative emissions techniques and other interventions? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How should mitigation of other greenhouse gases and pollutants be compared to and combined with CO2 mitigation (i.e., what is the balance of action and what are the appropriate metrics to compare them), and what do these mean for the timing of the requirement for net zero emissions? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero Can other land-based approaches to greenhouse gas removal, such as enhanced weathering and biochar, help achieve net zero without negative environmental impacts? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What are the competing pressures, trade-offs, and synergies of different land-uses in relation to climate change in a post COVID-19 world? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can a more strategic approach to land use be developed through aligning climate change objectives (adaptation and mitigation) with objectives for biodiversity and ecosystem services? How can the environmental co-benefits of mitigation actions be identified and quantified? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can the UK optimise sustainable growth of biomass for use in power generation (bioenergy) and, with appropriate storage, for removal of atmospheric CO2? How can the negative environmental consequences from biomass production and use (on soil quality, water quality, air quality, and biodiversity) be minimised? What’s the full life cycle analysis for different feedstock? What’s the scalability of different feedstocks within sustainable limits? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What are the real-world barriers that prevent land-users (for example farmers) taking up low/negative carbon measures, and how can these be overcome? How can we improve the estimation and validation of take up for these practices? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What is the role of the consumer in delivering net zero and how can changes be achieved equitably? What are the potential market responses to such changes and how do we avoid unintended consequences? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can we develop pathways towards net zero that are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable? What is the range of viable solutions, and what are the associated co-benefits and trade-offs? This includes developing spatially explicit models and tools to inform decisions at the landscape level, including prioritisation of conflicting land use demands Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can we predict the potential impacts of a changing climate on actions and strategies to mitigate climate change (for example how will future climate change impact the delivery of carbon sequestration by different habitats)? What tools are available to allow for effective planning of climate change mitigation strategies that are resilient to a changing climate? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can the UK develop measurement of carbon fluxes from different habitats and farming systems which are in different conditions and using different management approaches? This is especially relevant for peatland and coastal habitats Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What is the GHG emissions reductions potential from different land-based interventions per unit area per year, how will natural carbon sources and sinks evolve in the future, and what are their timeframes for delivery from implementation? For example, what levels of emissions reductions can be achieved by actions within the new Environmental Land Management Scheme’s outcomes framework, and from forestry, and over what time frames are these delivered? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can the UK protect and increase its standing stock of organic carbon: trees, peat, soil, and salt marshes? How can these habitats most efficiently be distributed spatially given limited land and other needs (for example urban space, food production, recreation)? How can increases in carbon stocks be achieved while maximising co-benefits such as biodiversity, clean water, and nutrient balance? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero Which practises can most effectively reduce emissions of GHG (including CH4 and N2O) from agriculture, waste, and wastewater, land-use, and F-gases in the UK and internationally? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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