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Britain only has a few more years to wait before the first fossilfree hours become a reality. Catherine martin, coordinator, all party parliamentary climate change group, 20082011. By cutting our own emissions and storing more carbon, the national trust will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Zero carbon britain report in 2007, describes in detail how the uk could make the transition. The uk committee on climate changes net zero report states that beccs could generate up to 173 twh of electricity by 2050, capturing up to 51 million tonnes of co 2 around half of the remaining carbon in the economy that the uk will need to capture to become net zero. Peter harper and stephen murphy from the zero carbon britain team.
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