{"id":54428,"date":"2024-06-13T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T08:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfc.ac.uk\/?p=54428"},"modified":"2024-06-13T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:27:58","slug":"net-zero-from-ambition-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfc.ac.uk\/gd\/net-zero-from-ambition-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Zero: From Ambition to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr Sean Field and Dr Mette High describe the work of the new SFC-funded Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelihoods (SRAEHL) towards making the changes needed for our future net zero society.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43321\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43321\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sfc-net-zero.jpg\" alt=\"Photocollage of the images used on the covers of SFC's Net Zero Framework for Action.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sfc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sfc-net-zero.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.sfc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sfc-net-zero-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sfc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sfc-net-zero-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sfc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sfc-net-zero-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sfc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sfc-net-zero-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos (left to right): University of the Highlands and Islands, University of Glasgow, Fife College<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-contrast=\"none\">The money for Scotland\u2019s net zero ambitions exists, as do the projects needed to achieve them. The problem is that there is no system for putting together these two pieces of the net zero puzzle, and no organisation charged with making it happen.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">To address this problem, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-homes-livelihoods.ac.uk\/financial-pathways\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Financial Pathways<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> theme of SRAEHL recently hosted a one-day \u2018sprint\u2019 workshop at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI). The aim was to prepare a proposal for a \u2018place-based decarbonisation unit\u2019 &#8211; an organisation able to fill the capability and capacity gap currently preventing Scotland from realising more investible place-based net zero projects.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The workshop emerged from a deepening collaboration between the Alliance, the Scottish National Investment Bank, University of Edinburgh-based ECCI, non-profit Living Places, and the Built Environment &#8211; Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) innovation centre. Moreover, it stemmed from months of consultations with local authorities, financial institutions, private sector organisations, communities, and the built environment sector. It followed directly from an earlier Financial Pathways to Net Zero Incubator event which brought together cross-sectoral stakeholders working in the net zero space.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">During the morning session, the Sprint Group developed a draft proposal for a place-based decarbonisation unit. We were joined in the afternoon by a wider Reflection Group of stakeholders who helped test the Sprint Group\u2019s thinking. More than 30 people participated throughout the day.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">It was a really exciting morning, fuelled by the pressure of having a coherent proposal to put to the Reflection Group in the afternoon. Time was limited and we had to stay focused. It was definitely a sprint, but a really fun and collaborative sprint that got us all working together from the word go.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">We believe these kinds of cross-sector, task-focused activities are exactly what\u2019s needed to turn months of discussion and convergent understandings about what stops us achieving net zero in Scotland into actual solutions in which the research community plays a vital role.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The day concluded with an agreement amongst the participants that a \u2018unit\u2019 was indeed needed to overcome the current barriers to realising net zero solutions in Scotland, revolving around the absence of a finance-to-project pipeline. This \u2018pipeline\u2019 issue, which describes a lack of connection between sources of capital\/funding and scalable net zero projects, encompasses overlapping legal-financial, social equity, and procurement problems, which the proposed unit would work to resolve. The proposal emerging from this workshop continues to be developed among the main collaboration partners, and this work is expected to continue in the coming months.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In addition, Financial Pathways is collaborating directly with Scottish local authorities to ensure researchers, industry, business, government, and the financial sector work together to realise councils\u2019 local heat and energy efficiency strategies (LHEES).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">A recent collaborative project spearheaded by Perth and Kinross Council, with Financial Pathways seed funding, started to explore the opportunities and challenges of taking a wider, regional approach to the implementation and delivery of LHEES.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This is a research agenda that is urgent and impactful, encapsulating the cross-sector collaborative ethos of the Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelihoods. Together, we are looking at issues such as how can we best draw on shared expertise and experience? How can we achieve economies of scale, so our projects become cheaper for the taxpayer? And how can we work with blended finance to aggregate projects, manage risks, and still ensure social equity?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">These are exactly the kinds of questions the Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelihoods was set up to answer \u2013 and the collaborative approaches we\u2019ve described here exemplify the way we want to tackle those questions. Our shared goal is simple; achieving an equitable and sustainable net zero future for Scotland.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Sean Field and Dr Mette High<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Financial Pathways Theme Lead and Alliance Director,<br \/>\nScottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelihoods<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">13 June 2024\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 aria-level=\"3\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Financial Pathways in Context<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2018Financial Pathways\u2019 is one of three themes of the Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelhoods (SRAEHL), alongside \u2018Decarbonising Heat\u2019 and \u2018Sustainable Households\u2019. The Alliance is directed by Dr Mette High, University of St Andrews.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Feedback from key collaborators and other stakeholders indicates that Financial Pathways is providing much needed and desired collaborative academic support for this ambitious and impactful net zero work.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">One key partner, for example, suggested there is reluctance to collaborate with academic partners across the net zero space because of how \u2018slow\u2019 and \u2018unwilling\u2019 academic partners have traditionally been to collaborate with cross-sector partners on urgent issues.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Key observations that have emerged from our collaborations and the work of Financial Pathways in its first several months include:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">There is a vital role to be played by the academic sector in providing knowledge exchange and collaborative research leadership on facilitating net zero solutions.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">There is reluctance among governmental, non-profit, and private sector partners to collaborate with the academic sector.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Deepening cross-sectoral collaborations are vital to developing new cross-sectoral impact-oriented research programmes. 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