Recommendation 16

We challenged DESNZ on how it was going to measure progress in terms of the potential to achieve carbon reductions and economic growth.44 It told us that individual programmes have set outputs and ‘near-term’ outcomes for what interim measures of success might look like.45 DESNZ agreed that it was a good challenge but told us that for many individual projects, the most practical way to consider success is the achievement of an output, such as installing a nuclear reactor to extract heat.46 It argued that it is harder to measure outcomes such as carbon savings in the early stages.47 Determining which net zero innovations to support