Norfolk and Suffolk Clean Growth Taskforce

Wednesday 5th October 2022

Agenda Item 8

Clean Growth for Business Events

Author: Ellen Goodwin

Summary

This paper provides an update on the Clean Growth for Business events in November

focussed on promoting sustainable best practice to businesses to deepen knowledge and

awareness.

Recommendations

The Taskforce is asked to:

 Provide comments as necessary

 Offer support and spread the message around the Clean Growth for Business events

Background

A programme of online events entitled Clean Growth for Business was delivered last year.

As part of the UK Government’s Community Renewal Fund: Road to Net Zero Business

Support Programme we have the opportunity to deliver another series of learning and

awareness events to businesses to align with the business support workstream of the Clean

Growth Taskforce.

Content will build on work conducted by the UEA and University of Suffolk as part of the

research element of the Road to Net Zero Business Support Programme. It will also build on

Chambers’ work that has taken place in this sphere.

Events will largely be held online but an in-person event is scheduled in Norwich on 15

November.

A similar in-person event is being held in Ipswich on 17 November, hosted by the Suffolk

Climate Change, Energy and Environment Board.

It is hoped that other partners will also engage in the delivery of this Programme although

the details of this are yet to be worked up. As the timelines align with hat of COP27: Egypt it

is likely that others will come forward.

Online

Webinars from our preferred suppliers will cover the following draft content:

 Carbon literacy

 Start the change: small things you can do and how they can have a bigger impact

than you might think

 ‘How to’ business case studies – tips, best practice, lessons learned

 Where to start with understanding your footprint – building a data collection plan

 Green financing

 Procurement and ESG readiness

Others are in the pipeline which will be articulated at the meeting.

In-person draft programme – 15 November, King’s Centre, Norwich

9.15am: Welcome – Pete Joyner

9.30am: BEIS Minister Keynote – tbc

10.00am: The Clean Energy Revolution – Denise Hone, Vattenfall

10.20am: How to Decarbonise Agri-Food – tbc

10.40am: Challenges and Solutions for the Built Environment – Saul Humphrey

11.00am: COFFEE

11.20pm: How do we fund it all? – Green Finance Institute – tbc

11.40am: Q&A and reflections panel

12.00pm: The art of the possible: Innovation Showcase facilitated by Johnathan Reynolds

 The role of Digitisation in delivering Net Zero

 Changing the way we think about Mobility

1.00pm: Closing remarks

Members of the Taskforce will automatically be signed up but are asked sot spread the

message via their networks.

Recommendations

The Taskforce is asked to:

 Provide comments as necessary

 Offer support and spread the message around the Clean Growth for Business events