Net zero and climate change

SWIP actively supports efforts to address climate change through the delivery of infrastructure to decarbonise the South West and support climate adaptation and resilience.

This includes a regional Net Zero Route Map, hosting workshops to identify challenges and opportunities, and promoting collaboration across various sectors to secure clean energy, and sustainable transport, water, waste and logistics.

In 2021, SWIP published the Integrating Net Zero Route Map, co-produced with the SWIP community following a series of workshops. The route map identifies three key pillars required to support infrastructure decarbonisation in the region:

  • Mindset and leadership: Promoting a net zero systems approach that prioritises leadership, education, ambition, demand reduction, experimentation, reform, social value, haste, imagination and partnership.
  • Carbon literacy: Building knowledge and skills around the net zero agenda amongst communities and organisations.
  • Collaboration: To empower infrastructure professionals based on robust appraisal processes, stringent governance, and a shared purpose; delivering solutions through enabling technologies, digital twins, solution schemes, business investment models and better supply chain and market management.

Download the map and infographic

Find out more about the Integrating Net Zero Route Map and watch the webinar recording.

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