The built environment is a major contributor in the generation of the carbon footprint and professionals need to be focussed on the design and construction, utilising techniques that will minimise the production of CO2 and encourage its capture and storage.  In the UK this process is supported by the government in the search for net-zero development.

The UK Government has announced £139 million funding towards its ambition to create the world’s first net-zero carbon industrial cluster by 2040, with at least one low-carbon industrial cluster by 2030.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture, CO₂ storage and CO₂ utilisation are likely to play a key role in decarbonising each of the clusters; either directly to abate process or combustion emissions or indirectly to support measures, such as fuel switching from natural gas to hydrogen and greenhouse gas removals through, for example, bioenergy with CCS.

Projects across the UK can bid for support from the Industrial Decarbonisation Fund, which forms part of the government’s “levelling up” agenda to boost economic growth in UK regions in critical need of support, as well as contributing to its target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

https://www.ccusnetwork.eu/news/uk-fund-decarbonising-industry