How Net Zero?

Achieving net zero is what it will take to halt global warming. If we can manage this by or soon after mid-century, we would limit overall warming to well below 2°C. Impacts would be serious, but likely not catastrophic. Can it be done, and without exacerbating political divisions?

We are often told that climate change is a complex, “wicked” problem, requiring daunting social change. It is neither. Stopping fossil fuels from causing global warming requires safe, permanent disposal of all the carbon dioxide they generate.

Delivering to the wants of 10 billion people is already a complex challenge, made only marginally more so if it is to be done without dumping that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This lecture series explores how we can – and will – rise to this challenge.