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

High-quality green infrastructure is critical to delivering COP27 goals

Oinion | Sophie Jones, Communications and Learning Manager, Building with Nature > As world leaders convene for COP27, dubbed “the implementation COP”, many planners and developers across the UK are working to deliver a local response…

The UK Kept 1.5 degrees Alive, A New COP26 Presidency Report Show

The new report, which comes as the UK prepares to hand over to Egypt next week, highlights progress made over the three years since the UK took on the Presidency of the COP. It also acknowledges that more needs to be done at COP27 and beyond…

Call for government to “get a grip” on climate change impacts

A Committee of senior MPs and peers has implored the Government to get a proper grip on the major national security risks posed by the effects of climate change on critical national infrastructure (CNI), such as power, water, transport and…

UK national statement to the IAEA International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power, 2022

Opinion |Joanna Whittington, Director General, Energy & Security, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy > A secure and affordable supply of energy is the foundation of economic growth and prosperity. Without energy security,…

Agreement to progress development of new UK small modular reactors

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cwmni Egino to support their development of a new small scale nuclear project in North Wales. The MoU enables the NDA…

Tees Valley Hydrogen Hub boosted by £20 million competition

Tees Valley will host a competition to discover how hydrogen can be used for a cleaner and more efficient transport sector. Tees Valley will host a new £20 million competition, where successful bidders will push the boundaries of hydrogen…

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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

Exemplar approaches to placemaking recognised with the Landscape Institute’s 2022 Building with Nature Award for High-quality Green Infrastructure

Building with Nature supports developers in ‘raising the bar’ for green infrastructure in the built environment Finalists for the Landscape Institute’s 2022 Building with Nature National Award have been announced, and the Award winner…

High-quality green infrastructure is critical to delivering COP27 goals

COP27 – World Biogas Association to highlight the critical role of preventing methane emissions from organic wastes in delivering the Global Methane Pledge

The global biogas trade body will host a panel discussion on how to reduce methane emissions from organic wastes in partnership with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA). *Image, Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive, WBA. The…