This Process Industries Division Event has been organised by the Process Industries Division Centres in the North West and Yorkshire Regions and the Aberdeen Area, part of the Process Industries Community

The Skidmore report. Mission Zero, issued recently is focussed on reducing UK emissions to Net Zero from the current estimate of 2 % GHG emissions

It tries to address the following questions for the UK:

What is the most pro-business, pro-growth and economically efficient path to reaching net zero
How to maximise the economic opportunities that the target presents as well as increase innovation, investment, exports and jobs
What are the economic costs and benefits associated with new and emerging policies and technologies
The review sets out how the UK government and industry should achieve this opportunity by pursuing six pillars. But as the UK is a minor contributor to global GHG, this series of webinars will try to address how this can be used to influence the Process Industries Global community

Areas which could be covered are:-

Discuss how attempts to meet local ( Governmental) environmental targets may result in increased global GHG emissions.

How can the IMechE influence engineers to develop Technology and Methodologies which can be used globally to address the Global GHG emissions.

How to identify technologies which already exist can be supported by local government and scaled up, and applied on a global scale.

How to ensure any proposed solutions are commercially attractive and competitive when compared to Hydrocarbon combustion alternatives on a global life cycle.

Ensure that proposed solutions which reduce energy demand, include CCS and alternative energy sources are truly economical in terms of the two critical factors of cost of finance and cost to the environment on a global life cycle. Company shareholders will ensure it meets its financial targets, but we will discuss how legislation needs to ensure companies meet their environmental targets.

Steve Cromar, Padrig 0’Hara, Willie Tulloch, Simon Rees, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Steve Johnson