M&C Reacts: UK Net Zero Research And Innovation Framework

The UK government has published its Net Zero Research and Innovation Framework.

Coming a week before the UN COP26 conference in Glasgow, and produced under the guidance of the Net Zero Innovation Board, the framework sets out research and innovation priority areas for the next five to 10 years aimed at supporting the delivery of the UK's Net Zero Strategy and carbon budget commitments.

As might be expected, the framework identifies key areas for research and innovation in Power, Industry and low-carbon hydrogen supply, Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) and Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR), Heat and buildings, Transport, Natural resources, waste and F-gases, and aims to take a whole-systems approach in recognition of the inter-related nature of the challenges (and opportunities) the move to Net Zero represents.