Infrastructure is for everyone
but we will build it.

Infrastructure is for everyone
but we will build it.

Our green industrial revolution
needs us to build back better

Green Infrastructure Week highlights the British technologies that will be used to deliver the biggest gains in our global transition to net zero.

We deliver insight and commentary for the whole ecosystem of people and organisations involved with green infrastructure from buyers and developers to investors and policy influencers – regionally, nationally and internationally.

Join multiple free-to-attend webinars during the week and gain exclusive insight from peers, innovators, and policy experts. Learn about technologies and projects today, and trial projects for future innovations and so much more.

Green Infrastructure Week highlights the British technologies that will be used to deliver the biggest gains in our global transition to net zero.

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Revolution takes many.
Join us.

Charlotte Morton - Chief Executive - World Biogas Association

Rob Saunders – Challenge Director, UK Research & Innovation

Sarah Prichard - Chair Net Zero Group Association for Consulting Engineers Environmental Industries Commission

Greg Clark MP - Advocate, Green Infrastructure Week + Former Energy Secretary

Trevor McMillan - Chair, Midlands Innovation + Vice-Chancellor, Keele University

Olivia Powis - Head of UK - Carbon Capture & Storage Association

Tom Greatrex - Chief Executive - Nuclear Industry Association

Farina Farrier - Head of Open Networks - Energy Networks Association

Why is Green Infrastructure Week
important?

The Green Industrial Revolution underpinned by the Ten Point Plan will mobilise £12bn of government funding and require £36bn of private investment to deliver. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also said “We will turn the UK into the world’s number one centre for green technology and finance, laying the foundations for decades of economic growth.”

Green Infrastructure Week is aligned with the government’s position and will highlight both our world-class skills and services in research, science & engineering, and recognise the technologies already moving at pace.

Our challenge is to not only deliver green infrastructure in the UK to reach net zero, but to sell on the international stage to drive our economy and global decarbonisation – in a global market anticipated to be worth several hundred billion pounds by 2050.

News + Opinion

Fund to secure our energy supply and boost cutting-edge nuclear projects opens for business

A £120 million government fund designed to unlock and accelerate new nuclear technologies while encouraging new players into the market opens today (13 May). The Future Nuclear Enabling Fund will help to realise the government’s ambition…

£200 million boost to rollout of hundreds more zero-emission HGVs

The world’s largest fleet of zero emission HGVs will take to UK roads through plans to achieve cleaner air and greener jobs, while helping to keep costs down on consumer goods.   Transport Minister Trudy Harrison revealed over £200 million…

23 years of learning has brought me to this point

OPINION | By Shawn Coles, Founder of Green Infrastructure Week and Net Zero Week > I am about to turn 47 years old on the 30th July and after having spent 23 years (actually 22 years, 10 months and 23 days) working in climate change media…

FREE TO USE social media cards for Green Infrastructure Week, for any business and anyone

If your organisation would like to join in with Green Infrastructure Week 2022 (25/29 April), then you can freely use a set of predesigned social media cards and the official promotional video optimised for use on LinkedIn, Twitter,…

Decarbonisation; capturing the value of hydrogen

OPINION | Companies are facing growing societal, environmental and legislative pressures to decarbonise. To make a strong business case and get the most value out of transitioning to lower carbon fuels such as hydrogen, companies should take…

Exclusive Opinion | Greg Clark MP “We need to double down on our Net Zero objectives”

When I went to the COP26 conference in Glasgow last year, I was struck by the sense of optimism that globally – at last – most of the major economies of the world had woken up to the need to move at pace towards Net Zero if we are to avert…

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Society needs net zero and
green infrastructure will deliver it

Net zero is fast becoming the world’s best answer to stopping climate change. The UK became the world’s first major economy to pass laws to end our contribution to climate change, committing the nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.

Other governments have followed including Japan and Canada, plus the full 27 countries of the EU. Governments with proposed legislation include South Korea and Chile, whilst 37 other governments have a policy document that should lead to proposed legislation – this list includes the USA, China and Brazil.

Net zero looks set to be adopted as the best strategy to protect us and the natural world from rising global temperatures by over 150 nations within the next few years with the vast majority aiming for 2050.

Why are governments opting for 2050 or 2060? Because green infrastructure will be the workhorse of net zero, and green infrastructure programmes take time, and some require billions of pounds in investment.

Events

Energy Minister Greg Hands co-chaired the first meeting of the country’s first ever dedicated group for creating UK green job opportunities.

Energy Minister Greg Hands today (11 May) co-chaired the first meeting of the country’s first ever dedicated group for creating UK green job opportunities. The Green Jobs Delivery Group will support the delivery of up to 480,000 skilled…

That’s a wrap for Green Infrastructure Week 2022 – Thank you for getting involved

A huge thank you to the thousands of varying stakeholders who engaged with the inaugural Green Infrastructure Week which took place this week (25/29 April 2022). The national awareness week campaign reached over 230,000 people across the UK…