Meeting Note

2pm, Wednesday 5th January – Teams

Attendees

Simon Burckitt Aviva

Genevieve Christie First Light Festival

Nigel Davies Muntons

Ellen Goodwin New Anglia LEP

Lorraine Gore Norfolk Climate Change Partnership

Andrew Lovett University of East Anglia

Pete Joyner New Anglia LEP

Jill Korwin Suffolk Climate Change, Energy and

Environment Board

Johan Neethling Rainbird

Simon Papworth New Anglia LEP

Johnathan Reynolds New Anglia LEP

Nikos Savvas West Suffolk College

Candy Richards Federation of Small Businesses

Lisa Roberts New Anglia LEP

Apologies

Dayle Bayliss Dayle Bayliss ltd.

Ali Clabburn Liftshare

Julia Pyke EDF

1. Minutes and matters arising

Pete Joyner welcomed new Members of the Taskforce: Simon Burckitt from Aviva and

Johan Neethling from Rainbird. He also noted that the group now had a full cohort.

 Conflict of interest forms to be completed

 LA work to be circulated – complete

The meeting note from 20 July 2021 was accepted as a true record. All other actions are

covered by the agenda.

2. Defining the ambition and its delivery

Key questions posed were:

 What do we know about the ambition of others in Norfolk and Suffolk?

 What do we have influence over and what should the scope of our ambition be?

What parameters are we working within?

 What evidence do we already have to support the development of a deliverable local

ambition?

 What evidence do we still need to support the development of a deliverable local

ambition?

Norfolk and Suffolk Clean Growth

Taskforce

Collective comments from the Taskforce included:

 Need to understand green initiatives/incentives in order to provide business advice,

support and signposting noting the need for a tailored approach

 Need to develop a simple message and consider wider influence – how does the low

carbon generation region message play into this influence piece?

 Need to re-look at CO2 emissions including point source emitters (what are they

doing and how can they disseminate best practise?) and where we’ve come from to

understand the scale of the challenge/opportunity. Consider carbon budgets too.

What does the science tell us?

 ESG reporting for Investors/Board crucial for many – need to consider supply chains

 Need to think about short term as well as broader longer-term metrics – technology

not always the answer – what can we do now?

 Collaboration and leadership critical – we cannot undermine each other – take a lead

where others are not – refer to SCEP and other work programmes. What are the

sector roadmaps/targets and how can we use those to support our work?

 Is there someway we can support the domestic sector?

 Behaviour change is CRITICAL

ACTION – map who’s doing what in each of the key Taskforce work areas (include key

emitters) then consider how the themes build to a final ambition/statement – or indeed

the other way round.

3. Alternative Fuel Strategy and Road to Net Zero Business Support Programme

Ellen updated the Taskforce on the current position of both the Alternative Fuel Strategy and

Road to Net Zero Business Support Programme.

Taskforce comments:

 Johnathan noted concerns about the scope of the Alternative Fuel Strategy and

asked for a follow up meeting with the appointed consultants.

 Simon offered Aviva and their thinking on SME support as part of the learning

process with respect to the Net Zero Business Support Programme.

 Nigel highlighted his potential consultancy conflict of interest with respect to the Road

to Net Zero Business Support Programme.

 The Taskforce expressed a wish to know how interested people are in each element

of the Net Zero Business Support Programme moving forward. This will be picked up

by the evaluation work and reported back to the Task force later in the year.

4. Action Plan

The action plan will be developed further based on the discussion above and task and finish

groups set up to advance ahead of future meetings.

5. AOB