Less energy, lower costs, fewer risks: energy futures co-created with government and the public show the UK’s fastest route to Net Zero

Thursday 27 Nov 2025
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Prof Christian Brand, a researcher from the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI) has led the transport analysis for a major new study exploring how the UK could reach its net zero targets faster, at lower cost and without risky tech by reducing overall energy demand.

Prof Brand, Emeritus Professor of Transport, Energy and Climate Change at the ECI and the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford, led the analysis of the transport sector — a particularly challenging area for decarbonisation — contributing detailed modelling of travel behaviour, vehicle technologies, and infrastructure choices to the overall energy scenarios.

Read more on the ECI website