Green transition targets are not realistic – how to decarbonise at the right pace

By Siavash Alimadadi, Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Business, King's College London
Jonatan Pinkse, Professor of Sustainable Business, Centre for Sustainable Business, King's College London

While the UK needs to accelerate its energy transition, targets are being missed, projects run into delays, and the public wonders why progress feels so slow. The temptation is to blame politics, funding or technology. Yet there is a deeper reason the road to net zero keeps stalling.

Everything in our modern life, from our roads to our factories, have been built around readily available fossil fuels. As a result, we expect things to happen quickly, to last indefinitely and to disappear without…

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