Is it feasible to cut emissions drastically?

Drastically cutting emissions looks more and more necessary with time and yet less and less realistic given current trends.

What are the policies and measures required? In fact people have looked at this rather extensively...

The Centre for Alternative Technology mapped out a radical plan (website) earlier in the year for creating a zero carbon Britain within 30 years.

Now the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) the have got together with mainstream NGO'sRSPB and WWF to path out a rather less ambitious but still tough path of emissions cuts, this time 80% by 2050.

In this work, ippr, WWF and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) set out to investigate whether a target of 80% can be achieved in the UK by domestic efforts alone and what the costs of doing so would be. We employed two approaches – the MARKAL-MACRO model, used by the government for the 2007 Energy White Paper, and a model developed by Professor Dennis Anderson at Imperial College, employed for the Stern Review on the economics of climate change.

80% Challenge: Delivering a Low Carbon UK (PDF)

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