Title
Scotland's Net Zero Roadmap (SNZR)

CoPED ID
92e901a3-9f7f-4fde-9075-ac4c78a29896

Status
Active


Value
£1,732,181

Start Date
Jan. 1, 2021

End Date
March 30, 2023

Description

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SNZR; Scotland's Net Zero Roadmap

To achieve Net Zero by 2045 Scotland needs to decarbonise industry, transport, heat and power. Scotland's Net Zero Roadmap project (SNZR) will provide the roadmap to enable large-scale industrial CO2 emissions reduction in a way that focuses on ensuring the continued, but evolving, contribution of high-value industry and employment in a future Net Zero economy, and supports other UK regions to do likewise.

Scotland emitted 41.6 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2018, of which 11.9 million tonnes were attributable to business and industrial processes. The top five emitting sectors in industry across Scotland are: Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Paper and Board, Cement and Glass and Environmental and Waste Services, as identified from sources above reporting thresholds. 74.2% of the greenhouse gases in 2018 were CO2, meaning that focusing on reducing CO2 emissions around the Forth (Lothian, Grangemouth, Fife) and St Fergus areas, which together account for over 9 million tonnes of CO2, provides a clear pathway towards Net Zero.

Crucially, SNZR will provide the roadmap that enables the deployment of options in a way that ensures competitive decarbonisation through continued and growing prosperity across the economy.

CCS is necessary, according to the Committee on Climate Change (2019), if we are to meet our net zero obligations. Capturing CO2 from industrial emissions and manufacturing hydrogen with CCS, provide two of the lowest cost and fastest means to decarbonise. These are options that offer opportunities for the continued but evolving role of our current energy supply industries, but which need to develop in a way that sustains the competitiveness of our high-value industries.

Scotland is in a strong position to lead this new large scale CO2 management industry. Offshore Scotland has some of Europe's best-characterised and largest CO2 storage sites while CCS and hydrogen will create opportunities for jobs and economic activity and help transition staff employed in sectors such as oil and gas.

Neccus LEAD_ORG
Wood Group UK Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Energy Systems Catapult Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Pale Blue Dot Energy Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Halliburton Management Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
University of Edinburgh PARTICIPANT_ORG
Aker Solutions Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Costain Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
University of Strathclyde PARTICIPANT_ORG
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Optimat Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Neccus PARTICIPANT_ORG
Doosan Babcock Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Net Zero Technology Centre Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG

Iain Weir PM_PER
Iain Weir PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Emissions
  2. Greenhouse gases
  3. Industry
  4. Climate changes
  5. Carbon dioxide
  6. Sustainable development
  7. Environmental effects
  8. Decrease (active)
  9. Future
  10. Europe
  11. Well-being
  12. Hydrogen
  13. Paper industry

Extracted key phrases
  1. Net Zero Roadmap project
  2. Future Net Zero economy
  3. Offshore Scotland
  4. New large scale co2 management industry
  5. Scale industrial CO2 emission reduction
  6. Current energy supply industry
  7. SNZR
  8. Value industry
  9. Large co2 storage site
  10. Industrial emission
  11. Greenhouse gas
  12. Industrial process
  13. Tonne
  14. St Fergus area
  15. Way

Related Pages

UKRI project entry

UK Project Locations
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