Latest News | 8 June 2021
New group launched to support low carbon push
D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership has launched a new group to support low carbon activity and programmes across the region.
The LEP has established the Low Carbon Growth Group, which will convene and coordinate initiatives aimed at delivering opportunities for investment, business growth and jobs across Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (D2N2).
The group aims to help the region capitalise on the significant opportunities arising at pace from the changes to technology, methods of production and forms of consumption.
It comes after the Confederation of British Industry recently set out its new UK Economic Strategy, which emphasises decarbonisation as a critical factor in the UK’s economic recovery.
The new group aims to build on the LEP’s ambitious plans to deliver the largest turnaround in carbon emissions in England, as part of its recovery and growth strategy.
It will also deliver on the goals of the UK’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.
The group will be chaired jointly by Becky Rix, D2N2 board member and marketing director at Roadgas and Wayne Bexton, interim corporate director for growth and city development at Nottingham City Council.
Other members include representatives from a wide range of key local private and public sector organisations.
The group aims to support the region to reach net zero, develop and enhance greater coordination of low carbon investment plans, create a portfolio of development opportunities to attract more government and private sector investment in the area and achieve the highest turnaround in carbon emissions in the country.
Sajeeda Rose, chief executive at D2N2, said: “Underpinning the D2N2 Recovery and Growth strategy is our ambition to achieve the highest turnaround in carbon emissions in the country.
“Bringing together some of the region’s most influential experts to form the Low Carbon Recovery Group will provide the vision and action needed as our economy retools and moves towards a carbon-free tomorrow.”
