The Carbon Trust

Last week, the Carbon Trust was delighted to host the Heat Pump Ready Zone at the InstallerSHOW. The Zone hosted several companies promoting the latest innovations to help accelerate domestic heat pump deployment in the UK. The key takeaways: 💷 Opportunity for innovators: The event offered a great opportunity for heat pump innovators to meet potential clients, partners, and investors in the heat pump sector. 🔥 Focus on heat pumps: Heat pumps were a core feature of the show and every major manufacturer, installer, and industry body was represented. This gave our innovators a great opportunity to understand the latest sector developments and meet key industry players. 🏆 Highlight – award winners: Thermoelectric Conversion Systems Limited (TCS), one of the projects exhibiting at Heat Pump Ready Zone, was the winner of the award for ‘Ones to watch - New products and solutions for Net Zero’ with its groundbreaking thermoelectric heat pump (TeHP). Congratulations! 👏 💸 Investment announcement: Heatly, another of the projects in the Heat Pump Ready Zone announced a major investment from United Living Group. The investment will enable them to scale up their innovative solutions to streamline and improve the survey and design process for heat pumps. Will Rivers, Programme Manager for Heat Pump Ready said, “it was brilliant to see the buzz that these innovators are generating in the heat pump sector. This made it the perfect place for these innovators to make the connections they need and to hear first-hand about key developments in the sector.”

⚽ EURO 2024 ⚽ is well underway and with Europe eagerly watching, what tactics can the tournament implement to ensure it’s the most sustainable yet?   Find out some of the actions that can be taken to lead the way for other major events like this ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dr-F-Crd

📣 Our offshore wind team is hiring Do you want to work for a mission-driven, global organisation? Then one of these roles could be for you. We are on the lookout for several roles across our offshore wind team. We are particularly interested in talking to individuals who can work from our London, Edinburgh, or Amsterdam offices. 👉 Offshore Wind Manager (Amsterdam) 👉 Offshore Wind Manager (London or Edinburgh) 👉 Electrical Systems Innovation Associate (London or Edinburgh) More details ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gi4fTgri #Hiring #Recruitment

📣 During London Climate Action Week, an important milestone was announced: a process to implement the world’s first international, verifiable standard on Net Zero! 👏 Convened by BSI, the development will ensure robust climate action and accelerate global progress towards Net Zero. With over 170 countries and thousands of experts, including the Carbon Trust’s John Kazer, involved in converting the ISO - International Organization for Standardization Net Zero guidelines into a verifiable standard, it will help organisations navigate their journey towards Net Zero with more credibility and clarity. If you’re looking for support in aligning with Net Zero, please get in touch ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e35d53sP https://lnkd.in/e2bNnp5H

The financial industry can facilitate the transition to Net Zero emissions of greenhouse gases by shifting capital from high to low carbon activities. As a result, we have partnered with British International Investment and its partners, FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank and Joint Impact Model Foundation, to support further collaborations with financial institutions and their sustainability journeys. Building on the success of the ‘Measuring financed emissions South Asia’ project, this new venture will work with African financial institutions to encourage them to embrace carbon accounting proactively. As part of the project, last week our South African team, alongside partner organisations, hosted the ‘Measuring financed emissions in Africa’ workshop, in Johannesburg. Thank you to all the financial institution stakeholders who attended. We were thrilled with the turnout and your enthusiasm to learn about the importance of understanding financed emissions as contributing towards global efforts to mitigate climate change. 🌍💵 Stay tuned for more details on the next event in August, hosted in another African country.

🏳️🌈 To celebrate Pride Month, we spoke to colleagues in some of our offices to talk about what life is like as an LGBTQIA person where they live.   Whilst positive progress has been made across the globe, it’s an important time to reflect on the challenges and inequalities still faced by people in the community. If you want to find out more specifically about how the climate crisis impacts the LGBTQIA community, and what we are doing, follow the link below ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eprYznh6

📢 Calling all public sector organisations working on place-based carbon reduction and energy projects! After a successful first session of our four-part webinar series ‘Navigating the Net Zero transition for cities and regions’, there is still time to register for the remaining three events. The series explores how local authorities and other public sector stakeholders can use their influence to plan and deliver effective place-based local Net Zero action. Each session will focus on a different aspect of the transition: 🏭 Supply chain | 9 July ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eDp9JUVK 🔥 Heat networks | 24 July ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eW6fJZZ9 🌬️ Renewable energy | 7 August ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eHRxQni7

💻👣 The Carbon Trust product carbon footprint label is expanding its visibility online by partnering with the sustainability claims platform, Provenance. As consumers and regulators demand more transparency in environmental claims, the partnership will allow consumers to see the environmental impact of products they buy online. Find out more about how the partnership will enable verification of credible carbon reduction claims at point of purchase ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gC7Fen3z #LookForTheLabel

With the UK general election just around the corner, our CEO, Chris Stark, talks to Simon Retallack and Nina Foster about the priorities for the next government and the future of the Carbon Trust.   They discussed: 🎯 how the Carbon Trust is shifting its focus, 🌍 whether elections around the world in 2024 spell make or break for the climate, 💷 whether the UK needs an industrial strategy to ensure economic prosperity while delivering on climate.   Watch the full interview ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gGJ7Uj3Y

In a year of elections around the world, this month’s Net Zero Roundup features an excerpt from our recent interview with Chris Stark, the new Carbon Trust CEO, on what the UK’s general election could mean for Net Zero. Plus, we provide quick intelligence on key Net Zero developments: 🏢 Business: Agri-food companies preparing for tightening deforestation rules 💵 Finance: Sluggish progress on setting a new global climate finance target 💡 Parting thought: Have emissions already peaked in China?