2022 AGENDA

As host of COP26, the UK Government set itself as one of the leading voices championing a transition to Net Zero by 2050. Almost one year on from COP26, can we strongly argue that our policies are topping the global Net Zero charts? 

Speaker: Chris Skidmore, MP for Kingswood, & Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment

Our First "Group Act" of the day, and as the King of Rock said, are we ready for "A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action"?

"Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work." - Bill Nye 

"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do" - Steve Jobs 

"Finance without strategy is just numbers, and strategy without finance is just dreaming" E.Faber 

With the prices of everyday goods going up, including spiralling energy bills, and inflation rising to historical highs, what does this means for the longer-term UK economic picture and the country’s ...

"Sport, it has millions of followers. No business has millions of followers in the way that sport does. No government has the attention of millions of followers in the way that sport has. So it's a massive role that sport has to play there" Nico Roseberg

"Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much." Abraham Lincoln

"Net zero refers to a state in which the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere are balanced by removal out of the atmosphere."

"Activism is my rent for living on the planet" - Alice Walker

As investors look to profit from the carbon-offset gold rush, demand for land is soaring. Scotland has a large rural land area: 98% of the country’s landmass is classified as either ‘remote rural’ or ...

The environmental crisis is a cultural issue. Not just a science problem. So if you think we can achieve net zero solely through technology and regulation, think again. Many companies are making good ...

"I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights" - Sonia Sotomayor 

The opportunities for investors in clean energy are enormous. Net zero is a challenge but it is achievable. The UK is making financial returns in the clean technology but there is not enough investmen ...

"I'm worried on greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive" - John Elkington

Speaker: Bob Gordon, Director, Zero Carbon Forum

And a performance from Henry Grace!

Amongst the loud voices of Net Zero and the cost-of-living crisis, retrofit can sometimes be drowned out by the other noise. Given retrofitting buildings and houses would help people have warmer homes ...

Scope 3, or in other words, the heads of sustainability's current puzzle to break through. 

“The key to the climate innovation agenda is making it go faster.” With talks that the technologies we need to achieve a net zero do already exist, how can we speed up the funding flow and make it eas ...

Join this session as we sit down with David Wright, Group Chief Engineer at National Grid, and discuss how we can innovate our way to Net Zero Host Peter Chalkley, Director, Energy and Climate Intelli ...

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon" - Tom Stoppard 

Society embraces constant waves of digital transformation, which changes the way we operate on a daily basis. Yet sometimes we become reluctant to apply that transformation to our own business's way o ...

"People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?" - Morgan Brittany

Negative emission technologies such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), and direct air capture (DAC), are appearing as potential solutions to reaching net zero. How can businesses ac ...

"Eliminate the very concept of waste, not reduce, minimize or avoid waste, but eliminate the very concept by design" - Prof. Michael Braungart 

The built environment generates nearly 40% of annual global CO2 emissions. With the levels of immigration to cities increasing, getting our buildings green are a crucial piece of the Net Zero journey, ...

Businesses are facing mounting pressure to implement ambitious net-zero strategies and deliver impact that will last. In face of the urgency and disruption we are currently experiencing, heads of sust ...

The shift to a green economy will create green jobs within new and emerging sectors, while those working in existing sectors will have to gain the requisite green skills to take advantage of business ...

"We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity" - E.O. Wilson 

It’s understandable to feel a bit "doom and gloom" when working to make your company sustainable yet are flooded with news on how we aren’t achieving enough. In this workshop, you'll learn tools to bu ...

At COP26 the Chancellor announced that the UK will move towards making it mandatory for companies to publish transition plans, stating that listed companies, asset managers and regulated asset owners ...

"Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is" - Steve Jobs

"Regenerative agriculture provides answers to the soil crisis, the climate crisis and the crisis of democracy" - Dr Vandava Shiva 

 

Who said climate change can only be communicated through a "doom and gloom" lens? Matt will be performing excerpts from his comedy shows, described as storytelling lectures, where he combines comedy a ...

You should all be familiar with this format by now... but here we will give you the Green version! Join us for our closing panel, where our panel of experts are here to answer and and all of your burn ...

To close off the day, we will have the hosts and special guest of the podcast Outrage + Optimism join us on the Net Zero Festival Main Stage. Outrage + Optimism cover the latest news from science, bus ...