Allen, Myles Archives - Net Zero Climate

Markets & Mandates: Policy Scenarios for UK CCS Deployment & Exploring the Role of a Carbon Takeback Obligation

by Helen Bunting | Jan 21, 2025

This landmark report by the Carbon Balance Initiative, Oxford Net Zero and the Carbon Capture and Storage Association explores policy pathways to achieve the UK’s carbon storage targets and net zero commitments. Achieving the UK’s legally binding 2050 net zero target...

Geological Net Zero and the need for disaggregated accounting for carbon sinks

by Helen Bunting | Nov 18, 2024

Achieving net zero global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), with declining emissions of other greenhouse gases, is widely expected to halt global warming. Warming will continue, however, until all residual CO2 emissions are balanced by active anthropogenic CO2...

Geologically Balanced Fuels: A net zero goal for Low-Carbon Aviation Fuels?

by Helen Bunting | Sep 23, 2024

Geologically Balanced Fuels (GBFs) offer the aviation sector a flightpath to net zero. They complement existing strategies centred around efficiency improvements and technology switching, offset credits, and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blending. A GBF is a...

Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero

by Admin | Apr 9, 2024

Following a groundswell of voluntary net-zero targets by companies, regulators are increasingly introducing mandatory rules. If governments can overcome the barriers to rigour, coherence and fairness, such mandatory ‘ground rules’ have the potential to overcome the...

Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting (revised 2024)

by Admin | Feb 27, 2024

Since the initial publication of the Principles in 2020, there has been growing interest in aligning organisational and offsetting strategies with net zero. Despite this, evidence continues to cast doubt on the integrity of many carbon credits used for offsetting, and...