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Researching the fastest institutionally plausible path to operational net zero with the smallest feasible residual.
Researching the fastest institutionally plausible path to operational net zero with the smallest feasible residual.
The Net Zero ASAP Project is research by Shannon A. Fiume exploring the fastest institutionally plausible pathway to operational Net Zero. Its cornerstone work is the 2030s Net Zero Playbook, a blueprint that identifies the earliest high-execution net-zero window as ~2037–2038, with ~2039 as the outer edge under very strong execution. The project has evolved to build ClimateSOS software to model current and prospective net-zero paths.
Net Zero ASAP Project focuses on multi-system synchronization: whether clean supply, deliverability, reliability replacement, fossil exit, finance, workforce, and demand move together quickly enough for clean growth to become actual fossil displacement.
One of the key findings explored in the 2030s Net Zero Playbook is that clean growth alone does not guarantee fossil displacement. The timing of net zero is determined by whether critical systems move together fast enough: clean generation; transmission, interconnection, and distribution; storage, flexibility, and reliability replacement; fossil retirement governance; finance and capital repricing; workforce and project throughput; demand growth landing on ready clean systems; and biosphere restoration aligned with planetary boundaries. When these remain synchronized, current growth rates can drive system transition while in parallel ensuring fossil phase-out. When they do not, clean and fossil systems expand in parallel, and timelines slip.
ClimateSOS is governed by its Foundational Charter that defines safeguards for planetary boundaries, climate justice, biosphere integrity, human accountability, open-source reuse, and responsible AI-assisted analysis. The Charter draws from ethically aligned design, trustworthy AI, responsible AI governance, planetary-boundary frameworks, open-source traditions, and flourishing-systems work.
Explore the Project
Explore the Project
Notable Works
Notable Works
Introductory Substack Essay: “Why Net Zero Isn’t Moving Fast Enough—and What It Would Take to Reach It by the Late 2030s.”
SF Climate Week 2026: What is Net Zero ASAP? Talk and Slides
Who This Is For
Who This Is For
This work is intended for people working in energy, finance, infrastructure, climate policy, grid planning, industrial decarbonization, AI infrastructure and governance, systems analysis, and planetary-boundary/climate-justice-aligned transition design.
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Feedback
If one of these areas is your domain, I welcome technical review, critique, and collaboration.
Contact: shannon at autofracture.com
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