Turner sets roadmap for decarbonisation
Former chair of UK Climate Change Committee lays out recommendations for reaching net zero
Lord Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), a global coalition of major power and industrial companies, investors, environmental NGOs and experts working out achievable pathways to limit global warming to well below 2˚C by 2040. He has previously chaired the UK’s Financial Services Authority (2008-2013) and the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) (2008-2012), and was director general of the Confederation of British Industry from 1995 to 2000. 50pc – Level of low-carbon power that can be achieved in India and China by 2030 Here he talks to Transition Economist about two key questions outlined in a recent set of reports published by the ETC—which envision a huge electr
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