The IPPR, and RSPB have published their joint report on the feasibility and costs of achieving an 80% cut in carbon emissions in the UK by 2050, based on modelling from Imperial College and the PSI (using the models developed for the Stern Review and the Energy White Paper).
The IPPR, and RSPB have published their joint report on the feasibility and costs of achieving an 80% cut in carbon emissions in the UK by 2050, based on modelling from Imperial College and the PSI (using the models developed for the Stern Review and the Energy White Paper).
The report includes international aviation emissions, and environmental safeguards on the form of limits on first generation biofuels. It says that achieving an 80% target is feasible, even excluding new nuclear build in the power sector. Costs are in the region of 2-3% of GDP by 2050. The IPPR is also publishing separately a more detailed report on the same material, with more policy context, called 2050 Vision, available on the IPPR website.
Read the press release and download both the 80% Challenge and the 2050 Vision reports, here.
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