Greg Smith (Conservative)

12. What assessment he has made of the potential role of synthetic fuels in achieving net zero targets. ( 906347 )

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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Lee Rowley)

The net zero strategy highlighted the potential importance of sustainable and synthetic fuels as part of the transition to net zero and committed to additional strategies. In aviation, the Government have already announced their ambition to deliver 10% sustainable aviation fuels by 2030.

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Lee Rowley

My hon. Friend makes two crucial points: first, that technological innovation—the ingenuity of human endeavour—is crucially important in helping us to get to net zero in the first place; and secondly, that it is very important that we let a multitude of technologies and innovations grow and develop, working in conjunction with private enterprise, to help to solve society’s challenges.

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