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🌟 Reflecting on our inspiring #NetZeroLiving Future Ready cohort gathering in Blackpool! 🌟 Over two days, we explored innovative ideas, connected with like-minded peers, and shared best practices for accelerating a just transition to net zero. The event highlights included: 🏛️ Blackpool Council: Insights on innovation, growth, and green ambitions. 🚋 Heritage Tram Ride: Networking with the iconic illuminations as a backdrop. 🍽️ Vintro Lounge: Building connections in a relaxed setting. 👥 Collaborative knowledge-sharing and solutions hacking at the beautiful Boulevard Hotel. We had the opportunity to learn from Blackpool Council, Wakefield Council, and Liverpool City Council about their bold initiatives, and to provide input alongside Regen and GB Energy on how local power plans can drive local ambitions. Together, we’re building a future-ready network of passionate leaders driving sustainability forward. These moments of connection fuel our journey to a net zero future. Onward to the next step in this exciting collaboration! This event was led by our technical partners Urban Foresight with Liminal and Forum for the Future. #NetZeroJourney #Innovation #Sustainability #Community #Networking #FutureReady #Blackpool

Building capacity to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero 🌍 Led by our technical partner Urban Foresight with Forum for the Future and Liminal, our brilliant team is delivering #FutureReady capacity building support to local authorities on Innovate UK’s £60m Net Zero Living Programme.    The Future Ready work stream is a skills and capacity building service. It helps tackle non-technological barriers facing local authorities which impede transition to net zero.    Progress is accelerated by sharing knowledge on barriers and demonstrating practical local solutions at every stage of the net zero journey. We’re gathering valuable insights that will help inform national policy, guide local actions and accelerate the urgent net zero transition.     By boosting capacity, we're helping to:  📈 Support business growth by driving demand for net zero products and services  🌍 Ensure a just transition for communities  🏡 Support the acceleration of local net zero delivery for the 2050 net zero target Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eq2ttGwN #NetZeroLiving #LocalAuthorities #NetZero #EnergyTransition #Innovation

Another great event earlier this week, this time in #Blackpool as part of the Innovate UK Net Zero Living Programme. Always inspiring to catch up with our Innovate UK #Fast #Follower, #Pathfinder and #Demonstrator colleagues from across the UK and hear how their journeys to #net #zero are progressing. It was brilliant on day 1 to get the chance to see the Showtown Blackpool museum, to ride on a heritage tram along the sea front to witness the famous #Blackpool #Illuminations and to learn about all the fascinating decarbonisation work being carried out by Blackpool Council. 👏 Day 2 was all about Implementing the Change with Regen and Involve, something which we hope we are well on the way to doing here in Mid and East Antrim Borough Council with our #i4C #CleanTech and #Innovation #Centre, our #HyTech #NI and #MEANZ #Business projects and various other #CleanTech, #Net #Zero and #Sustainability initiatives. We also had fascinating presentations about the community engagement work taking place in Gateshead Council and the one stop shop for retrofit in City of York Council. Two great examples of how to effectively implement change at scale and with impact. Things to remember from Blackpool: 🤼 Innovation is a contact sport 📈 Climate change alone does not drive behavioural change, we need to focus on what is important to people 🎤 Christian I. can sing and dance (AND he should know that Roland Harwood and Rhiannon James always have a camera close at hand) 🎢 I'm also grateful for the 40mph winds that meant the rollercoaster was closed!😱 I returned to Mid and East Antrim Borough Council on Wednesday just in time to see the #H2 #Gas #Safe #Lab being moved to it's new home at Ecos Hub. An exciting milestone in our plans for a #Hydrogen #Skills #Training and #Demonstration hub in #Ballymena along with partners such as Northern Regional College. No mum, I didn't go dancing in the Blackpool Tower Ballroom. Kara Cartwright | Kevin O'Malley | James Taplin | Hannah Wright | Dinah Jackson | Rachel Duggan | Marie Godward Urban Foresight | Forum for the Future | Liminal | B Corp™ | Innovate UK | Innovate UK Net Zero Living Programme

We spent the last few days in Blackpool exploring where we are on the net zero journey (or rollercoaster), as part of the quarterly Innovate UK Net Zero Living workshop together with 58 local authorities across the UK. Huge thanks to all of our speakers, partners and participants for connecting ideas and opportunities to accelerate the transition at speed and scale. 🇬🇧🌍🎢🗼 Urban Foresight | Regen | Involve | Northumbria University | City of York Council | Blackpool Council | Bright Sparks | GB Energy | Wakefield Council | Liverpool City Council | New Resource Partners Ltd. | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero #NetZeroLiving #NetZero #ClimateTech #UK #PlaceBased #OpenInnovation #SystemsChange #Transition #Blackpool #UK #NetZeroJourney

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. https://lnkd.in/dBYEMS8 #NetZeroLiving

The future of the United Nations Climate Conference is a topic of intense debate. Recent years have seen growing scrutiny of COP due to its perceived lack of continuity between summits, increasing corporate influence, and close ties to the fossil fuel industry. Last year's COP28 faced criticism for not adequately addressing the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels, and this year, the absence of leaders from the world's 13 largest carbon-emitting countries raises serious questions about the conference's relevance and impact. Industry leaders and experts, including Roland Harwood and Abb-d Taiyo, have emphasised the necessity for COP to evolve and prioritise transparency, actionable outcomes, and community-level engagement. However other experts warn that the current trajectory of COP risks becoming a mere platform for corporate interests rather than a catalyst for meaningful climate action. As the climate crisis continues to escalate, the collective consensus is clear: COP must adapt to meet the urgency of our times and translate rhetoric into tangible results. It’s time to reflect on past shortcomings and reimagine how global climate conversations can lead to impactful actions: https://lnkd.in/d7ATUpGU #COP29 #ClimateAction #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #Innovation #GlobalGoals

🌍 Empowering Local Authorities on the Journey to Net Zero 🌍 We’re proud to announce that Regen is the technical assistance partner for policy and regulation on Innovate UK’s £60m Net Zero Living programme. Through this partnership, Regen is supporting 52 local authorities across the UK and Northern Ireland as they work to achieve their net zero goals. By helping local authorities navigate complex policy and regulatory landscapes, Regen is not only enabling project delivery but also addressing national policy challenges that impact net zero initiatives on a local scale. Together, we’re working to unlock shared barriers and create a clearer path for local net zero success. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eGrJNV8R #NetZeroLiving #SustainableCommunities #LocalAuthorities #NetZero #ClimateAction #Regen #PolicyInnovation #GreenFuture

Looking forward to hosting another of our #Net #Zero #Insights webinars on 5th December at 11am with James Dunlop of The Carbon Trust and Mark McEvoy of Camden Group. This series is allowing us to share insights from across a range of different sectors about #net #zero and all things #sustainability. The idea is that we can share ideas which increase awareness and understanding of what companies can do to achieve #net #zero and hopefully inspire action. All made possible through support from the Innovate UK Net Zero Living Programme. Kara Cartwright | Kevin O'Malley | James Taplin | Christian I. | Hannah Wright | Dinah Jackson | Roland Harwood | Rachel Duggan | Rhiannon James | Raphael Lachiver | Roberta Iley | Marie Godward Urban Foresight | Forum for the Future | Liminal | B Corp™ | Innovate UK

🌍💡 Accelerating the transition to net zero is critical for creating a sustainable future. Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living Programme is here to help make that happen. With £60 million over three years, the programme is working with places and businesses across the UK to overcome challenges and deliver net zero solutions at scale. While many solutions already exist, barriers such as stakeholder coordination, citizen engagement, financing, and governance can make large-scale implementations. 🎥 Watch our video to learn how the Net Zero Living Programme is driving progress and advancing real solutions for a cleaner, greener future. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eFCdVhpd #NetZeroLiving #NetZero #Sustainability #ClimateAction

What if innovation were rethought as if people, rather than firms, are the thing that matter most? With the publication of the Budget and the Industrial Strategy, we know this government sees technology as an economic lever that can be pulled to increase growth and efficiency, but what if another way is possible? Matt Dowse and I have written this essay together, setting out a community-first vision for innovation and shining a light on the organisations actively crafting the new innovation economy. Rather than accruing benefits only to a small, socially elite group of innovators, a truly modern innovation economy must seek to create more plural, more equitable opportunities that are accessible beyond major research institutions and massive tech corporations, that prioritise regeneration over extraction, and that uplift and empower people and communities in their diversity. To reframe the innovation and establish inclusive innovation as a new norm, we ask 5 questions: 1. Funding: What needs to shift to make viable technology investment that prioritises long-term social returns rather than short-term profit and status? 2. Measurement: What are the metrics and measurement approaches that will make this attractive to policy makers? 3. Infrastructure: What infrastructures are needed to foster long-term, vision-led investments in technology capabilities that prioritise equitable, regenerative, health societies? 4. Intelligences: What interventions are needed to enable technologies to be created and altered to enable a “repertoire of intelligences” rather than support returns to a small number of Silicon Valley companies and investors? 5. Organising: What methods of organising are needed? What does organising in this new normal look like? How can communities organise for a new innovation economy? Come and join our thinking party, and make inclusive innovation the new normal. Careful Trouble (Careful Industries and Promising Trouble) Centre for Sociodigital Futures Power to Change