Climate change is one of the biggest challenges that human civilization is facing. The good news is that the scientific community has proposed many solutions to fight the climate crisis. One promising solution is to achieve net zero by mid-century. However, the goal and the means to achieve net zero present huge economic, technical, and societal challenges at the national levels. In 2015, the world community signed an agreement to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, significantly reducing the impacts of climate change. The agreement is commonly known as the Paris Agreement. Almost 8 years after signing the treaty, we see the world leading economies still struggle to meet their net-zero targets, but comparatively, the UK shows promising progress towards achieving its targets. Therefore, this thesis presents a case study of the UK’s approach to net zero. The two fields that have the potential to deal with a challenge as big as net-zero are public policy and project management. Creating synergies between these two fields can produce greater benefits and better results. The UK has published several detailed documents about its net-zero policies in the last few years. This thesis aims to find how public policy and project management fields communicate and coordinate with each other in the UK to better understand some of the success factors. In this report, we aim to analyse the structure of the UK’s net-zero policy in terms of its principles, goals, and objectives and how these goals and objectives are aligned with the landscape of projects and programs in the UK by analysing the different types of projects and programs. Furthermore, to stress the idea that projects can play an important role in policy implementation toward achieving the net-zero targets, we evaluate the success dimensions of the projects that have been completed in the UK. The key implications of the findings of this report are that there is a stronger need for coordination between the two fields. By allowing public policy goals and objectives to guide projects and vice versa, the countries will have a better chance of achieving their net-zero targets.
Il cambiamento climatico è una delle maggiori sfide che la civiltà umana sta affrontando. La buona notizia è che la comunità scientifica ha proposto molte soluzioni per combattere la crisi climatica. Una soluzione promettente è quella di raggiungere l'azzeramento delle emissioni entro la metà del secolo. Tuttavia, gli obbiettivi e i mezzi per raggiungere il “net zero” presentano enormi sfide economiche, tecniche e sociali a livello nazionale. Nel 2015, la comunità mondiale ha firmato un accordo per limitare l'aumento della temperatura globale a 1,5°C rispetto ai livelli preindustriali, riducendo in modo significativo gli impatti dei cambiamenti climatici. L'accordo è comunemente noto come Accordo di Parigi. A quasi 8 anni dalla firma del trattato, vediamo che le principali economie mondiali faticano ancora nel raggiungere i loro obiettivi di net zero, ma in confronto, il Regno Unito mostra progressi promettenti verso il raggiungimento dei suoi obiettivi. Pertanto, questa tesi presenta un caso studio dell'approccio del Regno Unito al net zero. I due campi che hanno il potenziale per affrontare una sfida così grande come il net zero sono le politiche pubbliche e il project management. La creazione di sinergie tra questi due campi può produrre maggiori benefici e risultati migliori. Negli ultimi anni il Regno Unito ha pubblicato diversi documenti dettagliati sulle sue politiche net zero. Questa tesi mira a scoprire come le politiche pubbliche e il project management comunichino e vengono coordininate tra loro nel Regno Unito per comprendere meglio alcuni dei fattori di successo. In questa ricerca, ci proponiamo di analizzare la struttura della politica net zero del Regno Unito in termini di principi, obiettivi e target e come questi siano allineati con il panorama dei progetti e dei programmi nel Regno Unito, analizzando i diversi tipi di questi ultimi. Inoltre, per sottolineare l'idea che i progetti possono svolgere un ruolo importante nell'attuazione della politica verso il raggiungimento degli obbiettivi net zero, valutiamo il successo dei progetti che sono stati completati nel Regno Unito. Le implicazioni principali dei risultati di questo rapporto sono la necessità di un maggiore coordinamento tra i due ambiti. Consentendo agli obiettivi della politica pubblica di guidare i progetti e viceversa, i paesi avranno maggiori possibilità di raggiungere i loro obiettivi di net zero.
The UK's net zero policy through the lens of project management
MUMTAZ, OSAMA;FAUGNO, FRANCESCO
2022/2023
Abstract
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges that human civilization is facing. The good news is that the scientific community has proposed many solutions to fight the climate crisis. One promising solution is to achieve net zero by mid-century. However, the goal and the means to achieve net zero present huge economic, technical, and societal challenges at the national levels. In 2015, the world community signed an agreement to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, significantly reducing the impacts of climate change. The agreement is commonly known as the Paris Agreement. Almost 8 years after signing the treaty, we see the world leading economies still struggle to meet their net-zero targets, but comparatively, the UK shows promising progress towards achieving its targets. Therefore, this thesis presents a case study of the UK’s approach to net zero. The two fields that have the potential to deal with a challenge as big as net-zero are public policy and project management. Creating synergies between these two fields can produce greater benefits and better results. The UK has published several detailed documents about its net-zero policies in the last few years. This thesis aims to find how public policy and project management fields communicate and coordinate with each other in the UK to better understand some of the success factors. In this report, we aim to analyse the structure of the UK’s net-zero policy in terms of its principles, goals, and objectives and how these goals and objectives are aligned with the landscape of projects and programs in the UK by analysing the different types of projects and programs. Furthermore, to stress the idea that projects can play an important role in policy implementation toward achieving the net-zero targets, we evaluate the success dimensions of the projects that have been completed in the UK. The key implications of the findings of this report are that there is a stronger need for coordination between the two fields. By allowing public policy goals and objectives to guide projects and vice versa, the countries will have a better chance of achieving their net-zero targets.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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