Oxycarboxy’s Post

I totally agree with Chris Stark that our climate strategy should just be our industrial or economic strategy. Net zero is a by-product of a just transition with harmonised policy, regulation, business leadership and shifting capital flows creating the enabling conditions for exciting new marketplaces to emerge. There’s a huge opportunity for the UK to show some real leadership to develop the necessary resilience required and to become more future ready.

The adoption and diffusion of new energy sources and new prime movers have been the fundamental physical reasons for economic, social and environmental change and they have transformed virtually every facet of modern societies. In the past, high energy societies created by the rising consumption of fossil fuels became the very epitome of change, leading to a widespread obsession with the need for constant innovation (Vaclav Smil). We're now in another period of energy transition, and times like these represent unprecedented opportunity for a paradigm shift in growth and development. Technology, policies and markets need to be aligned or created... The key to economic efficiency is specialisation, so success depends on continued value and therefore a de-risked and accelerated change agenda that drives current performance and builds the capabilities required for sustainable, shared advantage. The corporate world is bifurcating between high value-creating, resilient, adaptive, and future-proofed winners—companies that are built for the future—and companies that risk underperformance, and even extinction, by failing to respond fast enough to the tectonic changes taking place.  #carpediem