Finance and Procurement for Net-Zero

Start date: 1 July 2021
End date: 30 June 2023
Funder: UK Energy Research Centre (UKRI) Flexible Research Fund
Value: Total FEC: £338,433.05 Leeds FEC: £33,733.72 KRISTAL: 123263
Primary investigator: Professor Mark Davis
External co-investigators: Colin Nolden (PI, Bristol) Prof Albert Sanchez Graells (Bristol) Dr Mags Tingey (Edinburgh) Dr Dan van der Horst (Edinburgh) Prof Nick Eyre (Oxford) Dr Tedd Moya Mose (Oxford)

This project explores the role of public procurement and place-based finance in shaping net-zero delivery at a local scale. Whether local authority, community or business led, procurement and finance can play a key role in facilitating, upscaling and replicating energy demand reductions and sustainable energy service delivery for net-zero.

We work on the basis that: public procurement represents the public demand for net zero energy services and demand reductions; place-based finance instruments facilitate their supply; and energy is both a cornerstone for meeting net-zero targets and an opportunity to create local resources and capabilities to govern their implementation.

Working with local authority, business and community partners in the South-West and South-East, the project offers insights into the opportunities and limitations of local net-zero implementation with regards to local authority resources and capabilities.

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Project website

https://ukerc.ac.uk/project/finance-and-procurement-for-net-zero/