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Growing numbers of organisations have set ambitious net zero targets and are striving to meet them by switching to renewable power, embracing electric vehicles, improving their efficiency, and working with partners to curb their supply chain emissions. But organisations of all shapes and sizes face a significant financial and technical challenge as they look to accelerate their decarbonisation efforts: how to decarbonise heat.

New technologies demonstrate that it is possible to ‘stop burning stuff to heat our buildings’, delivering emissions and cost savings along the way. This exclusive BusinessGreen Webinar, hosted in association with Equans, will provide an invaluable guide on how develop an effective heat decarbonisation strategy for your organisation and the practical steps you can take to overcome one of the biggest challenges facing the net zero transition.

The free interactive webinar will explore:

  • Why heat is a necessary focus in achieving net zero carbon
  • The technical and financial barriers to heat decarbonisation.
  • How to develop an effective business case for heat decarbonisation projects and pursue a phased approach that can curb emissions and costs.
  • The pros and cons offered by different clean heat technologies and how to select the option that is right for your organisation.
  • How to assess the trade-offs presented by different approaches to heat decarbonisation.
  • How to maximise the emissions and energy bill savings on offer from green heating solutions.

The webinar will bring together experts in the development of corporate net zero transition plans and heat decarbonisation projects to provide an exclusive insight into how to tackle one of the most intractable sources of emissions and turbocharge your climate strategy.



Panellists

James Murray

James Murray

Editor-in-chief, BusinessGreen

James Murray is Editor-in-Chief of BusinessGreen, having launched the site in October 2007. He is responsible for BusinessGreen's leading news, opinion and analysis, and also contributes to the brand's expanding events' programme. James is one of the UK's leading commentators on the low carbon economy. He writes occasionally for The Guardian newspaper and has also reported for BBC Radio on a number of green technology stories. James reports daily on a wide range of green business issues, with a particular focus on low carbon policy, economics and technology. In March 2011, James was voted number eight in the Press Gazette's list of the top 50 environmental journalists in the UK. Prior to launching BusinessGreen, James spent five years as a technology journalist working on a variety of IT titles.
Miles Messenger

Miles Messenger

Energy Engineering Director, Equans UK & Ireland

Miles Messenger is the Energy Engineering Director at Equans UK & Ireland, with a career focused on advancing the transition to net zero carbon through innovative engineering solutions. Drawing on his background in energy systems design and extensive experience in energy performance contracting, he has led award winning projects in energy efficiency, renewable heat, and power generation.

At Equans, Miles leverages his technical expertise leading a team of highly skilled design engineers, helping customers develop resilient, low-carbon energy solutions for their buildings.
Richard Lowes

Richard Lowes

Dr Richard Lowes is senior associate at global energy policy NGO The Regulatory Assistance where he coordinates much of their heating work. After time in the UK energy and gas industry, Richard worked at Exeter university as an academic researching heat policy issues and teaching energy policy and geography. He moved to RAP in 2021 but still maintains an appointment with Exeter. He’s a non-exec for the Scottish Governments heat in buildings programme and has been a specialist advisor to UK Parliament. He’s worked on heating for 15 years.
Christine St John Cox

Christine St John Cox

Christine St John Cox is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers that has worked in the energy sector for over 25 years recently heading up Modern Energy Partners, an award-winning innovation programme, which looked at how to decarbonise the public sector estate at scale. The programme has led to the development of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Guidance supporting quality, consistency and capacity building across the sector. Chris now heads up the Sites Platform at the Energy Systems Catapult, after joining from Ricardo where she was Associate Director, responsible for supporting corporate decarbonisation and sustainability strategies, corporate reporting frameworks, and supporting development of UK policy guidance such as CRC and ESOS amongst many other things.

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