A project on the constraint-mapped blueprint of operational Net Zero by ~2037–2038.
Net Zero ASAP is research by Shannon A. Fiume at Autofracture Research exploring the fastest institutionally plausible pathway to operational Net Zero. The project has released the 2030s Net Zero Playbook, a blueprint identifying the earliest high-execution net-zero window as ~2037–2038, with ~2039 as an outer edge under very strong execution. It is framed as a constraint-mapped blueprint, not a forecast.
Most net-zero pathways focus on scale: build more clean energy, faster. Net Zero ASAP focuses on synchronization: whether clean supply, deliverability, reliability, fossil exit, finance, workforce, and demand move together quickly enough for clean growth to become actual fossil displacement.
The core finding is simple: 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. When they do not, clean and fossil systems expand in parallel, and timelines slip.
2030s Net Zero Playbook
Final draft — Version 3.0 (April 2026) · CC-BY-4.0
[Google Document: https://bit.ly/NZpbk]
[PDF]
Introductionary 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
This work is intended for people working in energy, finance, infrastructure, climate policy, grid planning, industrial decarbonization, AI infrastructure, systems analysis, and planetary-boundary/climate-justice-aligned transition design.
If one of these areas is your domain, I welcome technical review, critique, and collaboration.
Contact: shannon at autofracture.com