In collaboration with London Climate Action Week
Accelerating policy, innovation and finance for zero carbon cities
3 July 2019
National Grid ESO
Launched in April 2019, the Electricity System Operator (ESO) is a legally separate business within the National Grid Group responsible for the safe and secure operation of Great Britain’s National Electricity Transmission System.
As a central actor within the UK’s energy sector we have played a critical role in the decarbonisation of the energy networks and are heavily involved in the planning for a decarbonised future for both transport and heating.
As such we’ve set ourselves the task of ensuring that by 2025 we can operate the Electricity Transmission System with zero-carbon. This means a fundamental change to how our system was designed to operate; integrating newer technologies right across the system and increasing demand-side participation, using new smart digital systems to manage and control the system in real-time.
To help further foster this transition we are also looking to reinvigorate the levels of competition in our service markets, to ensure that by 2023 all participants over 1MW, be they power generators or demand side solutions, will be able to compete equally to provide the balancing services we need. This added level of competition and the increased access to our markets will help to reduce costs for consumers whilst helping to bring about a revolution in how electricity is used in Great Britain.
Valpak
Valpak was the first scheme established to help businesses comply with the Packaging Waste Regulations in 1997. We have grown to become the UK’s leading packaging compliance scheme, with a 50% share of the market. We now also offer compliance to producers under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations and the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations.
Valpak has been offering services to customers in the UK and beyond to support them on producer responsibility legislation for 20 years. The requirement for business to report on EPR and compliance issues has grown over the years and now covers issues such as packaging, waste electrical and electronics, batteries but also includes modern slavery, chemicals, energy and waste.
Most of this work requires expert support and advice on legislation, data collection and reporting, scoping problems and delivering auditable results. Valpak is an expert in this field and we work with our customers to enable them to do what they do best, by doing what we do best.
We have invested in organisational capability to add value through delivering flexible solutions. At Valpak we believe that we provide clear solutions to complex sustainability problems. Many of our customers agree by scoring us consistently over 95% in satisfaction surveys.
Helistrat
Helistrat offer intelligent waste solutions taking a strategic rather than operational approach. We offer tailor made solutions that deliver cost savings, revenue generation, improved service and full legal and environmental compliance. We are one of the UK’s leading waste management partners and operate a zero to landfill approach, proactively working towards delivering 100% recycling.
RE-search
RE-search.energy is an online platform that connects corporates with renewable energy projects globally through PPA’s, green energy contracts & renewable energy certificates. Companies can access information on the latest renewable energy projects & trends in the market and connect with project developers & suppliers. Generators can showcase their projects and gain access to market trends.
We use technology to facilitate access to clean energy. Name it A.I, advance search algorithms or bespoke market tools, RE-search provides a simplified approach to renewable energy. Our solutions are data centric and technology driven, we achieve this by analysing hundreds of data points to source the projects and solutions that meet specific search criteria of corporates. Some include:
- Data Insights & Trends: We provide a comprehensive worldwide data report on trends and prices of PPAs, certificates and green contracts.
- Project Search: Access information on hundreds of projects including available Corporate PPA’s, Merchant PPA’s & REC’s in a global marketplace.
- Smart RFI: By simplifying the RFI process, we focus on the key information needed to provide better results and avoid time wasting for both corporates and generators.
- Build a Business Case: The business case tool compares the price of the PPA against energy forward curves provided by our data partners Cornwall Insight, Aurora and UK BEIS
Phoenix BioPower
Phoenix BioPower is developing the future of biomass-fired power generation systems, the BTC.
The Biomass-fired TopCycle, BTC, is a high-pressure and integrated plant to convert biomass to power. By gasifying the biomass in combination with a high-pressure gas turbine process and massive steam injection, unprecendented conversion efficiencies are achieved. Together with its plannable production capacity and best-in-class total efficiencies, the BTC plant will change how renewable power is produced in the future.
Clean Techinca
CleanTechnica is the #1 cleantech-focused website in the US and the world.
Our work has been referenced by the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, MSNBC, Think Progress, Reuters, Scientific American, and plenty of other media outlets. Some of the cleantech industry’s top CEOs, directors, founders, and board members read us regularly. And plenty of “common citizens” are also addicted to our site.
CleanTechnica strives to be the most indispensable website on the planet for cleantech news and commentary. We have been covering the cleantech industry obsessively since 2008 — before it was popular for mainstream media to dedicate blogs or subdomains to the topic.
FORESIGHT Climate & Energy
FORESIGHT Climate & Energy is the essential read from Denmark on the global transition to a decarbonised energy economy — objective reporting on what really matters by expert journalists and writers from around the world.
Climate Home News
Climate Home is a news and analysis website that follows developments in global climate change politics and policy. The core editorial team is based in London, working with reporters based in Delhi, Islamabad, Moscow and Rio de Janeiro.
Climate Change TV offers an online channel hosting interviews and footage from international climate change and development summits. It was the first online video broadcaster devoted entirely to climate change issues. Climate Home and Climate Change TV are both funded by Responding to Climate Change Limited (RTCC) which was founded in 2002.
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Packaging Europe
Packaging Europe is the leading intelligence resource for European packaging professionals. It connects early adopters, technologists and buyers across the packaging value chain with the latest developments in technology, materials and manufacturing processes, making sense of innovation in the context of the core sustainability and market challenges packaging is required to meet.
CIWEM
The Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) is the leading international Royal Chartered professional body dedicated to the water and environment sector. We represent and support a community of thousands of members and organisations in 89 countries. All our members are dedicated to improving water and environmental management as well as associated social and cultural issues, for the benefit of the public.
CIWEM provides an extensive range of services leading the industry in developing technical excellence, which include: Training courses; events featuring top level speakers, debate and networking; round table meetings driving thought leadership and policy development; publications; and independent policy position papers, guidance and codes of practice, all founded on impartiality and the use of scientific evidence.
UK100
UK100 is a network of highly ambitious local government leaders, who have pledged to secure the future for their communities by shifting to 100% clean energy by 2050. This is not just good for the planet but for the people and communities they serve, be they in villages, towns or cities. Local leaders are working together to create flourishing communities, seizing the opportunities of technology to create jobs and establishing a nationwide project of renewal, focused on local needs and ambitions.
UK100 is the only network for UK local authorities, urban, suburban and rural, focused climate and clean energy policy. We connect local leaders to each other, to business and to national government, enabling them to showcase their achievements, learn from each other and speak collectively to accelerate the transition to clean energy.
World Green Building Council
The World Green Building Council is a global network of Green Building Councils which is transforming the places we live, work, play, heal and learn.
We believe green buildings can and must be at the centre of our lives. Our changing climate means we must reshape the way we grow and build, enabling people to thrive both today and tomorrow.
We take action – championing local and global leadership, and empowering our community to drive change. Together, we are greater than the sum of our parts, and commit to green buildings for everyone, everywhere.
Cenex
Cenex is an independent, not-for-profit, impartial advice service– helping businesses and government find innovative methods to reduce emission through transport and the associated energy infrastructure. Established in 2005, we have the expertise and trustworthy service, supported by evidence-based tools developed to give insights for decision making in both the public and private sector.
We develop solutions to facilitate the transition to suitable and socially responsible mobility, offering services such as; strategic management support, knowledge sharing and wide industry dissemination through our Transport and Energy Systems & Infrastructure teams.
Cenex organises the UK’s largest Low Carbon Vehicle event, providing a platform to showcase and engage with informers to discuss emerging technologies, industry issues and what the future holds.
Accelerating policy, innovation and finance for zero carbon cities
The organisers of the Sustainable Innovation Forum are delighted to convene the Climate Innovation Forum 2019 during the first ever London Climate Action Week, 1-8 July, 2019.
For over a decade, the Sustainable Innovation Forum has been one of the largest official side events at the annual UN COP meetings, bringing together international policy makers, business and finance to catalyse collaboration and innovation for climate action. The Climate Innovation Forum 2019 in London will be the first in a series of regional events aimed at championing innovation to accelerate the zero carbon economy. Focusing on 4 themes – zero carbon energy, zero carbon buildings, zero waste, zero carbon mobility – the event will look to mobilise cross sector collaboration to develop – and deliver – innovative products, services and systems that can be scaled up on a city-wide, nation-wide and even global, level.
4 Thematic Areas
Zero Carbon Energy
Zero Carbon Transport
Zero Waste
Zero Carbon Buildings
OUR MISSION IS TO PROMOTE
- Innovation to enable zero carbon and waste
- Leadership and ambition from cities and governments
- Greater access to funding for start ups
- Development of new climate finance products
- Cleantech and start-ups and entrepreneurs
- Policy frameworks that give business the certainty to invest
- The transition to a circular economy
IN ORDER TO SOLVE
- Carbon emissions from transport, energy and buildings
- Air pollution and health crisis in cities
- Mobility model in cities is broken
- Transition to clean energy systems
- Greater energy efficiency in buildings
- Barriers to funding for clean tech sector
- The objectives of the Paris agreement
Speakers
Barbara Buchner
Executive Director
Dr. Barbara Buchner is Executive Director of Climate Finance at Climate Policy Initiative. Named one of the 20 most influential women in climate change, Barbara advises leaders on climate, energy, and land use investments around the world. Barbara directs the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, which solicits, shapes, and tests cutting edge climate finance instruments that resolve financing barriers hindering alternative energy, adaptation, and land use projects. Instruments from the Lab have mobilized over 1.6 billion US dollars for sustainable development in five years. She is also the lead author on CPI’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance, which has set the benchmark for climate finance tracking.
Cristina Gamboa
CEO
Cristina Gamboa, CEO of the World Green Building Council as of November 2018, is a passionate advocate for green buildings and cities as one of the most effective solutions to climate change and as a means to deliver on social justice and other environmental goals, such as stopping biodiversity loss.
She previously worked as CEO of Colombia Green Building Council and also has expertise in the fields of economic research, journalism and international affairs. Thanks to her active, committed and participatory leadership, and thorough knowledge of sustainable development, the Colombia GBC met significant milestones that enabled sustainability in construction to become mainstream in her home country.
Iain Macbeth
Head of Foresight
Iain Macbeth is an expert on emerging trends and technologies in the transport sector. Currently the Head of Foresight at Transport for London (TfL), Iain sits at the nexus between transport solutions and the challenges that global cities face – population growth, economic and social issues, urban planning, and energy. His expertise covers drones, electric vehicles, connected and autonomous vehicles, as well as emerging models such as Mobility as a Service (MaaS), micromobility and car clubs.
Previously, Iain worked in a number of consultancies leading sustainable travel projects, DHL, and a large UK pharmacy chain where he was responsible for transport, security and development control at their head office campus. He is a member of several Advisory Boards and Panels in the UAM and Future Mobility sector, and also works with a number of European and International organisations such as POLIS, the OECD and ERTICO.
He is a former chair of the Chartered Institute of Highways & Transportation Sustainable Transport Panel, and was a Director and Company Secretary for the UK Association for Commuter Transport (ACT) and the Boots Benevolent Fund.
John Elkington
Founder & Chief Pollinator
John is a writer, thought-leader and business strategist, a serial entrepreneur and, at heart, an environmentalist. He is the Founder and Chief Pollinator at Volans, a certified B Corporation driving market-based solutions to the future’s greatest challenges. John is also Honorary Chairman of SustainAbility, and sits on an A-Z of some 20 boards and advisory boards. He has written 19 books, and his latest is co-authored with Jochen Zeitz, former CEO of PUMA and now co-chair, with Sir Richard Branson, of The B Team. The book, entitled “The Breakthrough Challenge: 10 Ways to Connect Today’s Profits with Tomorrow’s Bottom Line” comes full circle from John’s 1997 “Cannibals with Forks”, where he first introduced the Triple Bottom Line concept.
Justin Laney
General Manager of Fleet
Justin Laney manages the John Lewis Partnership fleet of 3600 commercial vehicles and 1500 cars. The fleet is recognised for leading in innovation, and the priorities remainto reduce all emissions (including those affecting air quality and noise) through efficiency and displacing all diesel with low carbon alternatives. Areas of focus are using bio-methane in heavy trucks, electrification, high capacity vehicles, aerodynamics, and other methods based on good science and rigorous testing. Headline commitments include running all heavy duty trucks on biomethane by 2028, and achieving a zero carbon fleet by 2045.Justin’s career started with London Transport (Buses), having obtained a BEng at Liverpool University. He also worked at UPS for 20 years, managing fleets in EMEA as well as the UK. Justin is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and holds senior posts in several organisations dedicated to advancing clean freight transport.
Meryam Omi
Head of Sustainability & Responsible Investment Strategy
Meryam is responsible for engaging on sustainability themes globally and development of responsible investment product solutions. She leads on the project to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects into the fundamental research of mainstream funds and to carry out sector/theme specific engagements on key sustainability topics, such as climate change, water and corporate tax policy.
Meryam has over 12 years of investment experience in asset management companies, starting her career as a business proposal writer for fixed income funds. She joined LGIM in 2008 to set up a business proposal team and project managed various marketing and sales initiatives across a wide range of products and capabilities.
Professor Sam Fankhauser
Co-Director
Before joining the Grantham Research Institute, Sam served as Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He has also worked at the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and in the private sector. From 2008 to 2016 he was a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change.
Sam has studied economics at the University of Berne (Switzerland), the London School of Economics and University College London.
Simeon Agada
Head of Clean Energy and Advanced Economies
Simeon Agada is the Head of Clean Energy and Advanced Economies at the UK Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Simeon is responsible for the UK’s bilateral energy relationship with the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea. He is the lead UK representative to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM). Prior to his current role, Simeon was an Energy Strategy Advisor at BEIS; contributing to the development and delivery of UK energy policy. He has served in multiple operational and leadership roles in the energy industry. Simeon started his career as a Petroleum Engineer at Baker Hughes GE where he coordinated and delivered international energy projects. He holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and Postdoctoral Fellowship from Imperial College London.
Who Will Attend?
The event will convene 350 senior representatives from:
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