Zero Carbon Policy Toolkit

Zero Carbon Policy Toolkit

The Toolkit is made up of 10 blockers to zero carbon, and 10 enablers. Each of these represents an intervention in our economy which taken together

Explore the Enablers and Blockers of Zero Carbon

Trade and Investment Requirements for Zero Carbon Report introduced Green House’s new ‘Blockers and Enablers’ toolkit to aid policymakers to shift trade and infrastructure choices from global growth to facing up to the climate emergency. Having explore the Toolkit though a series of reports as part of the Climate Emergency Economy project in collaboration with the Green European Foundation, we have now compiled a visual booklet available to download above.

Picture of a poster of the zero carbon policy toolkit project with workers using hardware tools to 'fix' the economy
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Toolkit Overview

The policy toolkit is made up of 10 blockers of zero carbon, that perpetuate unjust business-as-usual, and 10 enablers of a zero carbon sustainable future. Each of these blockers and enablers falls into one of three families:

  • Transforming business-as-usual (what fundamentally must change)
  • Therefore Our Government Must (where politicians must lead)
  • Therefore Our Soceity Must (how companies and individual must response)
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Animated Toolkit overview

So what is 'Locking in harm' or 'Sufficient Action'?

Below are the description of a few of the enablers and blockers in the toolkit. The page numbers indicate where in the Trade and Investment Requirements for Zero Carbon Report you can find out more about that enabler or blocker. Another six enablers and blockers are explored in the Infrastructure Requirements for Zero Carbon report. The remaining four will be cover in future publications as part of the Climate Emergency Economy project.

Descriptions of Enablers/Blockers - See PDF Downloads

Exploring the Toolkit:

These reports each explore a different subset of the 10 enablers and 10 blockers to reaching a Climate Emergency Economy

Trade and Investment Requirements for Zero Carbon
This report proposes a much-needed toolkit to help policy makers face up to climate reality and address the wider environmental impacts and the imbalances of power and wealth that underlie our global trade
Green House Think TankPeter Sims
Infrastructure Requirements for Zero Carbon
This report focuses on the freight transportation, aviation and steel sectors, which, combined with cement and plastic production. To ensure Sufficient Action is being taken, our society must target the rates of change required for a rapid transition to zero carbon.
Green House Think TankPeter Sims
The Social and Environmental Requirements of a Climate Emergency Economy
Our economy is not currently zero carbon, stable or sustainable, even in economic terms. What interventions are required to deliver the rapid transition required? What must these interventions achieve and how should these requirements be defined?
Green House Think TankPeter Sims

These intervention should deliver:

Image of the logos of theGreen European Foundation and Green House Think Tank with text that reads Published by the Green European Foundation with the support of Green House think tank. GEF project coordinator: Sian Hasker, Green European Foundation. This publication has been realised with financial support of the European parliament. The Polden Puckham charitable trust have contributed to the report design costs. The European Parliament is not responsible for the content of this project.

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