JEC World is also the “place to be” for composites with hundreds of product launches, awards ceremonies, startup competitions, conferences, live demonstrations, Innovation Planets, and networking opportunities.

The primary purpose of the day is to spark new ideas and actions among the Club’s membership base of corporate net-zero leaders. The unique event will include a keynote presentation and panel discussion from an array of business and climate thought-leaders, a networking lunch, and five collaborative roundtables that will see like-minded peers co-create solutions to key decarbonisation challenges and discuss exciting new opportunities.

Attendees will have an opportunity to choose to take part in two workshop discussions from these five themes.

• WORKSHOP A: Strategy & innovation
• WORKSHOP B: Buildings & efficiency
• WORKSHOP C: Smart grids & Flexibility
• WORKSHOP D: People & process
• WORKSHOP E: Emissions Calculations & Scope 3 management

This event is sponsored by:

Now in it’s second year, Zero Carbon Commuting Conference (ZC3), the UK’s only event focussed on decarbonising the commute, is behind held virtually on the 31^st of October. ZC3 is focussed on sharing best practice amongst leaders from the UK’s largest public and private employers. In attendance will be representation from over 600 of the UK’s largest employers represented, with sustainability, transport, estate and HR functions attending.

With over 40 speakers from across industry, government and academia, ZC3 will include topics such as:

• Transferable Lessons from Decarbonising Supply Chains
• LAs and Anchor Institutions Decarbonising the Commute Together
• How does the energy and fuel crisis affect sustainable commuting?
• Rural and Urban Innovation and Impact
• Changing commuting behaviour: psychological insights

Why focus on the commute?

Shockingly, 5% of all UK emissions come from commuting. In July 2021, the Department for Transport released the Transport Decarbonisation Plan. For the first time in UK Government policy, it identified that the commute should have a decarbonisation strategy distinct from transport as a whole. The DfT named this policy “Commute Zero”.

The movement to decarbonise the commute is part of wider “scope 3” set of emissions which require businesses to take account of their entire “value chain”. Commuting is a unique kind of journey. Workers commute “off their own steam” – they choose how they are going to get to work and pay for it themselves. However, unlike any other sort of travel, they are required to make the journey for their employment. So whilst the commute is a personal journey, it’s one that employers can influence.

ZC3 is an opportunity to address the challenges and solutions around travelling to and from the workplace. By supporting large employers across the public and private sector, we hope to help organisations address their Scope 3 commuter emissions challenges, improve the viability of sustainable commuting alternatives and mitigate the impacts of climate change to make happier, stress-less commutes for all.

London, 17 October & Edinburgh, 1 November
Hybrid event – in-person and online
Tickets – in-person from £179.00 and online £89.00

The Guildhall, City of London, EC2V 7HH
Edinburgh International Conference Centre, EH3 8EE

Private finance has a vital role to play in funding nature restoration both globally and in the UK, to ensure the sustainability of business and wider society. Actions to restore biodiversity, achieve net zero, and adapt to a changing climate can be financed together.

Join us at the fifth Natural Capital Finance & Investment Conference to hear the UK’s leaders in green finance sharing how to harness nature-based opportunities for nature and climate, including:

• How to attract and scale finance for nature-based solutions
• New UK investment opportunities
• What the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) means for nature-based finance
• The role of digital technology in nature-based finance
• How to build an integrated standard for environmental markets.

The conference offers an unrivalled networking opportunity in the run up to COP27 and COP15, bringing together conservation, environmental management, financial services, corporate sustainability, and government professionals.

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Over the last five years, The Natural Capital Finance & Investment Conference has led the way in fostering informed expert-led dialogue to drive forward financial innovation for nature in the UK.

This year sees the welcome return of in-person conferencing alongside the online event and will run across two days, in London on 17th October and in Edinburgh on 1st November 2022.

Each year the conference attracts the leading speakers and sponsors in this specialist field. This year, we are delighted to be delivering the event in association with the Scottish Nature Finance Pioneers.

We would like to thank our Joint Headline Sponsors for London, Federated Hermes Limited and Finance Earth, our Sponsors, Credit Nature, Green Finance Institute, Jacobs, Pollination, Treeconomy and Wilder Carbon, and our media partner, edie.

The Conference is organised by the Ecosystems Knowledge Network, a registered charity that specialises in equipping people to deliver wellbeing and prosperity through a healthy natural environment.

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