Net Zero
topic on 8 shows · 13 statements across 13 episodes
the Neon Show 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
Capital Allocators 
Catalyst 
the Green Blueprint 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In 
20VC
13 statements about Net Zero, every show
Rathi: UK Reform Party polls ahead of major parties opposing net zero
“So there is a party called the Reform Party that's on the rise over here, doing in the polls better than the main two parties, Labour and Conservatives, and they are against net zero.”
Luxon: New Zealand might achieve net zero six years early
“And obviously we've got a big commitment to, you know, net 20, 50. And in fact our latest plan, which we have legislated into our parliament you know, even since we might even get there six years early.”
Atmospheric CO2 will reach 600 to 650 ppm despite net-zero targets
“Even if we get to net zero by 20 70 or 20 80, which is when people expect the planet to get to net zero, we are going to go from 440 parts per million to something like 606 150 parts per million.”
Farooqi: Net-zero is "dead on arrival" without active customer participation
“Without customer involvement, this net zero business is dead on arrival.”
Orthofer: Only 10% of net-zero abatement potential is fully mature today
“And when we do that, we actually find that only about 10% of the abatement potential that, that we need to get to net zero is in this in global deployment or a sort of fully mature category which is a lot less, I think, than we would have hoped.”
Huff: Reaching net zero emissions is impossible without expanding nuclear power
“A huge fraction of that gigantic gap must be filled by nuclear power, or else we're never gonna get to net zero.”
Hamilton: Clean energy investment must hit $5T annually for net-zero
“So we need three times more than the almost two trillion a year to make it to net zero. So we need to be at almost five trillion a year of investment.”
Shayle Kann: World will likely need to go globally net negative
“We are going to get to net zero and then probably need to go even further and become net negative globally because we will have overshot our carbon budget.”
Carney: Achieving Net Zero Requires Growing Nuclear Power 50% by 2050
“There's no net zero without nuclear power. A lot of people don't like to think about nuclear and think that there's an easy right to shut it down, but in fact we have to grow it by another 50% between now and twenty-fifty worldwide.”
Rodman: No Credible Academic Path to Net Zero Exists Without Nuclear Energy
“There is not one credible academic institution that sees us on a path to net zero without nuclear growth.”
Palihapitiya: Global net zero by 2050 is not possible
“Net zero by 20, 50, 26. It is not possible. There is zero credible plans that the world has to do it.”
Bataille: Carbon removal is an admission we will miss net-zero targets
“We're probably going to blow past the deadline by about two decades, which means, you know, CDR is basically an admission of failure. That we did not mitigate fast enough.”
Blood: Net-zero transition will be most important economic shift in history
“We think that the transformation to net zero will be the most important economic transition in history, and therefore investors run significant risk as well as have significant opportunity if they manage this transition, this transformation very well.”