The Tide is Turning Decisively Against Net Zero

In the belief that atmospheric CO2 is the control knob of ‘dangerous’ impending climate change, Net Zero emerged in the 2010s as the global rallying cry to ‘save the planet’.  - Tilak Doshi

But a spate of recent headlines suggests that the ‘Net Zero by 2050’ policy is falling apart. 

• There is a growing realisation across advanced economies that the grandiose project of achieving ‘Net Zero by 2050’ is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. 

What was once heralded as a consensus across the political class, corporate boardrooms and multilateral agencies now looks increasingly like an edifice of ideology built on a vaporous, oxymoronic ‘consensus science‘. 

The rising tide of empirical reality

• the costs of intermittent renewables, 
• the geopolitical consequences of energy insecurity and 
• the sheer scale of power demand growth from artificial intelligence infrastructure

has swept away the carefully constructed narrative of inevitability around the so-called energy transition...