We are creating a world-leading centre of excellence in the science and technologies, underpinning solutions for decarbonising our economy and society and for addressing key environmental issues.

The Centre’s mission is to foster an interdisciplinary environment to provide a focal point for King’s science and engineering research in net zero. It promotes a whole systems approach to these challenges, drawing upon the faculties and disciplines across King’s to work toward delivering solutions that work in practice in our world.

The Net Zero Centre serves to highlight, nurture and facilitate discovery and applied research to address the challenges for decarbonising our society and reducing the environmental impact of our manufacturing, infrastructure, and cities. Based in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences (NMES), the Centre works across the boundaries of disciplines at King’s from geography and business to law and social science to deliver solutions for sustainable development. The Centre fosters the next generation of King’s change-makers by educating scientists and engineers on the holistic context of these challenges and developing technologically aware social scientists, lawyers, and policy makers. 

Priorities

The Centre focuses on four key priority areas, underpinned by common themes across the faculty: Materials for Net Zero; Sustainable Manufacturing; Data and Optimisation; Simulation and Modelling.

Decarbonisation for industry, business, and society

Supporting the transition to net zero carbon in industry, transport, and the energy sector by developing new technologies to reduce CO₂ emissions in conjunction with exploring optimization models for the carbon finance markets to help the decarbonisation process.

Sustainable, low carbon green manufacturing

Designing and developing processes and products to reduce and reuse waste and minimise environmental impact from new designs to retrofitting.

Resource allocation for equity and sustainability

Optimising the equitable allocation of resources to reduce energy consumption and reduce environmental effects.

Resilient urban infrastructures and environments

Making our cities adaptable and liveable with low carbon, environmentally sustainable technologies alongside developing new solutions for energy efficient connectivity.

Leadership team

Departmental representatives

Funding news and calls

• How can artificial intelligence help us get to net zero?

• Social sciences to play vital role in meeting UK’s net zero goals

• EPSRC blog - The net zero journey of industrial heartlands, cities and regions

• EPSRC blog – Engineering net zero: innovating in transport to cut carbon emissions

• Royal Academy of Engineering - Engineering Zero

• Net Zero funding opportunities