“ Rolls-Royce as a company has a huge role to play in supporting the transition ”
really big deal . We ' re starting to see the real fruits of that commitment coming through . And there ' s some really exciting projects that have the potential to scale up and deliver .
Q . TELL US ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIPS YOU BUILD IN ORDER TO OPERATE AS SUSTAINABLY AS POSSIBLE
» I think one of the things we ' re really conscious of is that no one can do it alone in this journey . Particularly for the systems that we are operating within transport , energy and the built environment . Each one is intrinsically linked . We ’ re an engine provider , so that engine goes onto somebody else ' s platform – for example , a boat . We provide an engine that goes on someone else ' s ship , someone else operates that ship , they choose where , which port it starts from , which port it ends up at . You need that whole system to work together because the technology alone doesn ' t do anything . It can ' t do anything . It doesn ' t deliver any benefit to society .
Q . WHAT ARE THE BIG OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU ?
» I think there is a fantastic opportunity to come from this . I think Rolls-Royce as a company has a huge role to play in supporting the transition , not just in reducing our own carbon footprint , but actually really helping to accelerate the development of technologies for markets that we ' re not present in today , whether that ' s , new ways of connecting people in cities , through air mobility or things like net negative emissions technologies . Direct air capture is something that we ' re looking into at the moment . But , really taking that step back and thinking about that system level transformation is really exciting .
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