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Recognising the need for urgent action, the National Engineering human health) while avoiding adverse
Policy Centre has presented a low regrets framework to help environmental and social impacts, for
example ensuring that low income
policymakers identify and build confidence in the decisions and disadvantaged households are not
that can be taken now to decarbonise the UK economy disproportionally negatively affected.
Multiple options and scenarios for
he urgency of achieving net across multiple policy areas that must reaching net zero exist, leading to
zero poses a major cross- work together as a coordinated system uncertainty about how the goal will
sector challenge. The UK’s to achieve net zero in the most efficient be reached. As industrial, energy and
path to net zero, and its ability and effective way. These measures must transport systems begin to decarbonise,
T to decarbonise at sufficient not only seek to rapidly decarbonise the there is uncertainty as to what set of
speed and scale, is contingent on key UK economy, but also seek to support technologies will predominate and it is
decisions made by the government UK job creation and competitiveness, still unclear how the technologies used
now, and in the years that immediately secure other environmental benefits in these systems will vary regionally
follow. Decisions need to be made (e.g., in respect of local air pollution and and locally across the country. Given

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