The Infrastructure Podcast: Episode 52

Guest:  Faustine Delasalle, chief executive, Mission Possible Partnership

The global net zero carbon challenge

In today's podcast we talk about the challenge of global decarbonisation – specifically looking at what actions industrial sectors can take today to ensure we have a sustainable future. 

Clearly infrastructure professionals have a massive role to play when it comes to tackling global carbon emissions and climate change; in ensuring that the UK and all nations stay on track to meet the agreed net zero emissions targets by 2050. Construction and operation of our built environment, after all, accounts for something like 80% of all emissions.

But transforming the design and operation of our public and private infrastructure assets requires a systems approach. It is not something that any single part of the infrastructure sector can tackle alone, rather it has to be to culmination of many parts – perhaps, some might argue all parts – of the built environment and industrial supply chain that support our modern lifestyles.

The most recent COP28 meeting in Abu Dhabi highlighted clearly that achieving consensus is not an easy task – an impossible mission some might say. 

Not so my guest today. As chief executive of the Mission Possible Partnership, Faustine Delasalle no doubt argues that driving industrial decarbonisation across the entire value chain of the world’s highest-emitting heavy industry and transport sectors, is not only possible, it is absolutely fundamental to securing our future business, social and economic lives.

It is my pleasure therefore, to welcome Faustine to the Infrastructure Podcast today to explain how this transformation is possible and what needs to happen to ensure a net zero carbon emissions future is a reality by 2050. 

Mission Possible Partnership is a movement of climate leaders in business and civil society driving industrial decarbonisation across the entire value chain of the world’s highest-emitting sectors: aluminium, cement, chemicals, steel; aviation, shipping, and trucking. We’re charting the inventive steps and radical collaboration to enable commercial-scale deep decarbonisation projects in this decisive decade.

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