Connected Places Catapult (CPC), in collaboration with UK Core Cities, and London Councils, has commissioned this piece of work to assess the Net Zero investment opportunity in UK Cities.

Eunomia Research and Consulting, and Bankers without Boundaries (BwB), have collaborated to deliver this assessment.

These Stage 1 findings are intended to present the scale of investment required to achieve Net Zero across these cities. Stage 2 of this research will assess the associated opportunities for return on investment, and necessary actions to enable finance to flow into Net Zero infrastructure.

More information on the national scale of requirements to meet Net Zero can be found in the Climate Change Committee’s Sixth Carbon Budget report, which can be found here: https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/sixth-carbon-budget/

Watch the UK Cities Climate Investment Commission Launch event

This event brought together a broad spectrum of high-level stakeholders with a stake in net zero from government, international organisations, the investment community, business, academia, media, and NGOs to officially launch the UK Cities Climate Investment Commission (UK CCIC) and present early-stage findings of ‘The Estimated Net Zero Investment Need for the UK’s Cities’ report which the UK CCIC commissioned in the run-up to COP26.