Debate continues on whether renewable resources and changed land practices is enough to achieve net zero emissions.
A key figure in the United Kingdom’s decision to legislate a climate change target of net zero emissions by 2050 is in Australia. Professor Julia King (Baroness Brown of Cambridge) will give a lecture on the approach the UK is taking with hydrogen, and the policy requirements in developing such a new industry over the next 30 years.
Baroness Brown is visiting Australia as the 2019 Distinguished Lecturer, University of Melbourne Centre for Carbon Capture and Research, with support from the Mineral Council of Australia. She will give the lecture Net Zero Emissions by 2050 and the Role of Hydrogen this Thursday and meet with Victorian Government Ministers, senior officials, industry and researchers before travelling to Canberra.
Baroness Brown co-wrote the report that was instrumental in the UK becoming the first country to put into law the ambitious goal of achieving net zero emission by 2050.
Australia is focussing its climate strategy on increasing the proportion of energy met from renewable resources and changed land practices which are essential component of any move towards net zero emissions. But as Baroness Brown’s report makes very clear, this will not be enough.
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