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Join us and Urban Foresight for a free online webinar on Thursday 16th July 2-3.30pm on the Net Zero Living Programme.
Read on for an extract from Urban Foresight, explaining more…
Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living Programme funded a new wave of innovation across the UK. Ending earlier this year, the Programme funded 52 local authorities and their partners to work together to deliver new net zero oriented solutions that improve local services and open markets for economic growth.
Urban Foresight was the Programme’s community and knowledge sharing delivery partner. We supported the community of local authorities throughout the last three years. Part of our work was to collect and synthesize insight from the places involved, helping to tell the stories of how barriers to net zero transition were challenged and overcome. The Creating Better Places handbook series is one of the outputs of this work.
We believe that most net zero guidance in the UK sits in one of two modes: a policy mode of what government should do, what targets are required and a technology mode, about the existing solutions, how they work and what carbon reduction benefits they bring. Both are necessary. Neither is sufficient for local delivery. Creating Better Places is a third mode: operating reality.
The Creating Better Places series is a handbook for local authorities and their delivery partners on the areas where local innovation can improve lives and unlock growth. The handbook and ten practitioner-led resource packs present opportunities for using net zero as the ‘how’ to make change for good and overcome the barriers that block progress. It is built on the simple premise that climate action is not a separate agenda. When embedded well, it is a powerful lever to improve everyday outcomes for residents and support place-based renewal and resilient economic growth.
In this conversation, we’ll talk about:
1. How Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living Programme sought to understand the non-technological barriers to net zero delivery,
2. The changes in the policy environment and the impacts to place-based delivery, and
3. the experiences of the 52 places involved to understand how to continue delivery when conditions and systems are changing.
To register for this session which will take place via Teams Webinar, please click here.
