Roz BulleidDeputy policy director020 7630 4526rbulleid@green-alliance.org.uk
Confirmed members of the TransformTax advisory board are:
Green Alliance launched the new Tech Task Force in September 2018 at an evening reception addressed by Claire Perry MP. See here for a set of supportive statements.
The Tech Task Force is putting the spotlight on technological solutions that help to strengthen businesses through greater resource efficiency, rebalancing the UK economy and revitalising manufacturing in the regions. The Tech Task Force will, therefore, be focusing on four major sectors that underpin regional economies outside south east England.
The first report, Smarter transport: a digital revolution for electric vehicles and mobility services, highlights how digital technologies could help put UK businesses at the forefront of new low carbon transport industries and how policy can drive their adoption across the sector. We will also be looking at energy, buildings and food.
A smarter way to save energy is the second report from the Tech Task Force. The policy insight explores how the adoption of digital technology can transform the delivery of energy efficiency across UK businesses and highlights three areas of policy action to ensure that buildings and industry across the UK can cut energy bills and carbon emissions.
In our third report, Smart building, we explore the role of digital technology is futureproofing UK buildings. From better building design to offsite retrofit, from predictive maintenance to material tracking and reuse, digital technologies can help accelerate the transition to low carbon construction and the upgrade of existing buildings for a net zero future. Their adoption will also support greater industry productivity and new jobs across the country.
In our fourth and final report for the task force, Smart and green, we explore how digital technology can support a green economic recovery from Covid-19. We highlight the opportunities for digitalisation to improve performance in the transport, energy, buildings and food sectors. We propose that the digital and low carbon agendas should be linked in government's strategies for economic recovery and decarbonisation, to help UK businesses improve efficiency, become more competitive in global markets and reduce their environmental impact at the same time.
Tech Task Force members are HVM Catapult, Innovate UK, Gambica, Schneider Electric and Ramboll.
The Green Innovation Policy Commission (GIPC) brought together progressive businesses, leading academics and civil society organisations to identify how policy can best support green innovation across the UK economy and reward the innovators, entrepreneurs and investors who can generate value from environmental solutions.
The Commission was chaired by John Cridland and the research was led by Prof Paul Ekins and UCL academics, supported by Green Alliance.
Find out more about the commission
Perspectives from the GIPC commissioners on why policy change to foster green innovation is vital:
'Push and pull is needed to green our economy' by Angela Francis
'Six insights on accelerating innovation to reach net zero' by Nick Molho
'From ambition to action: why new policy will be vital for green innovation' by John Cridland
The GIPC’s final recommendations:
The final report of the GIPC Innovation for a green recovery: business and government in partnership, was published in January 2021. It sets out in detail the results of its investigation, including sectoral analyses and advice to government and business.
We simultaneously published a summary of the GIPC’s recommendations to policymakers in How to fast track innovation for a green industrial revolution (January 2021)
The GIPC’s conclusions were discussed at our online event ‘New solutions for a green recovery: unlocking the UK’s innovation potential’ on 12 January 2019.
There is a clear opportunity for local areas in England to take the initiative in developing innovative and clean ways to grow the economy. Green Alliance and Localis’s consortium on clean local growth sought to investigate what places can do straight away, and what they need to be able to do, to unlock routes to clean growth in their area.
Our final report laid out an England-wide analysis of clean growth challenges, opportunities and policy options, ascertained through a series of engagement events and expert interviews. We provided pathways and direction for local stakeholders to work together to respond positively to the issues they face in moving to a low carbon economy and recommendations to central government as to how it could assist this process. Read the full report here: 'The route to clean growth: Using local industrial strategies to drive change'.
This project was produced in partnership with Localis, West Midlands Combined Authority, ENGIE and Cornwall council.
The clean local growth report was successfully launched on the 23rd October where the reports' findings were showcased and opportunities debated through organised workshops. We hope to revisit this subject in 2020 and would be keen to hear from other organisations with an interest in clean local growth.
The Green Alliance Trust, 40 Broadway, London SW1H 0BU t:020 7233 7433
Registered charity number 1045395 and company limited by guarantee (England & Wales) number 3037633
