iED CPD Online: Clean Growth

Important – this is a series of 3 webinars each running for 90 minutes on the 22nd, 24th and 25th September 2025.

This course will be run by Dr. Rosa M. Fernandez Martin, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance and KBS Sustainability Lead & PGR Lead at Keele University. An economist by training, her areas of expertise relate to environmental and energy economics and policies, carbon literacy, corporate social responsibility and green finance.

T he course will cover the following:

• Clean growth: Meaning and pathways for the UK
• Policy: Net Zero Strategy (and latest changes)
• Technology: Hydrogen as the latest ‘saviour’
• Opportunities and challenges (for the national and local levels)
• Green finance
• Skills gap
• Examples of best practices (in and out of the UK)
• Public-private partnerships
• Community engagement in energy generation

Attendance is open to both iED members and non iED members.

For those of you completing the Advanced Certificate in Economic Development, this is one of the modules in that programme.

The webinar sessions will be on:

• 22nd September 10-11.30am
• 24th September 10-11.30am
• 25th September 10-11.30am

There is an expectation that delegates will attend all 3 webinars. Please note that the webinars will be conducted via Zoom or MS Teams and you will be able to ask live questions via the chat during the course of the sessions.

The inclusive price for this session 3 x 90 minute webinars) is £70 for iED members and £135 for non iED members. No VAT is chargeable. Pay by invoice is possible.

To book on to this course, please visit our Eventbrite page here.

If you are undertaking this module as part of the Advanced Certificate in Economic Development, you don’t need to book on via Eventbrite as all details will be sent to you separately by debbiedavidson@ied.co.uk.

Please note, if you are not yet an iED member, why not consider joining to take advantage of the member rate for this and future CPD events? Get in touch with us at admin@ied.co.uk for further info.

We will send you a link to each webinar in the days running up to the first session.

Remember, the iED requires ALL associate and full members to log at least 40 hours of CPD over a two year period. Half of all CPD logged – 20 hours – needs to consist of formal CPD activity.

Please note that we are happy to provide this course or other CPD courses directly to your organisation – for now, these will all be delivered online. Please get in touch with us for more details.