He is committed to the betterment of lives through individual and collective endeavours.. As well as his business and pharmaceutical experience, Dyson is Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham, focussing on project management, business strategy and collaboration.. Additionally, he is a qualified counsellor with a private practice and looks to bring the understanding of human behaviour into business and projects.. To learn more about our Design to Value philosophy, read Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology by Professor John Dyson, Mark Bryden, Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood.

Focus on hard to abate Sectors is Critical:.While significant progress has been made in general decarbonisation, achieving net zero hinges on addressing the most hard to abate sectors like iron, steel, cement, chemicals, and heavy transport (e.g., aviation), where electrification is not a straightforward solution.. 2.

Beyond Electrification:.Diverse Technological Pathways Required: Decarbonising these sectors demands a range of innovative technologies beyond simple electrification, such as sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) for aviation or carbon capture solutions for cement production, often requiring significant energy inputs.. 3.Need for Integrated Systemic Solutions:.

Investment tends to focus on individual technologies, but the podcast stresses the importance of understanding the ‘network value’ and integration of these solutions within a broader, complex industrial system, rather than viewing them in isolation.. 4.Governmental Intervention is Essential to Drive Change:.

The market alone is unlikely to deliver the necessary speed and scale of decarbonisation in these sectors.

Mandates (‘sticks’), like those seen for SAF, and incentivisation (‘carrots’), such as carbon sequestration payments, are essential for stimulating investment and progress.. 5.Gogan says she hopes that’s wrong, because there are currently four billion people in the world who lack access to enough electricity, and 850 million people who lack access to any electricity at all.

In fact, the latter figure is expected to increase to three billion people by 2050.It’s essential that we start addressing where all of this needed energy is going to come from.

Eric Ingersoll has conducted analysis which suggests that if everyone on earth had access to just a median level of electricity (about 4,000 kilowatt hours compared to an existing rate of 15,000 kilowatt hours in the U.S.), even then, we’d need to triple our energy infrastructure.It’s vital that we start taking our rising energy demand into account, and building it into our climate mitigation strategies..