UKRI: Getting to the crux of net zero – survey results!

UKRI have shared the following article.

Your crux moves and what we can do next.

This is a follow up blog to the Climate Tech Crux Move, published in January by Stafford Lloyd and Lea Simpson. Where we explored our shared theory that we already have the technical knowhow and financial resources to solve the climate crisis and reach net zero emissions. Exploring why, despite having all of that, so little was happening to get us to net zero.

Solutions and barriers

We believe the solutions are out there but there are systemic barriers preventing things from scaling. Often these barriers are invisible, intangible and more complex to grasp when compared to ‘just’ developing tech, which is way more tangible and simpler to determine cause and effect. The crux move is a useful analogy to begin to identify, unpack and tackle unseen barriers.

To explore this hypothesis further, we asked readers ‘what are the climate tech crux moves needed to break the climate change stalemate we find ourselves in?’. And we promised to revisit the blog and publish findings. So here they are!

Survey contributors

Thank you to those who contributed, we received a total of 58 ideas from 22 people. Half came from climate tech innovators. Followed by advisors and then consultants as the second largest groups. Many of the responses came from those working on net zero in one form or another.

Read the survey results here.