Accelerating green innovation in the UK

The Green Innovation Policy Commission (GIPC) is a business-led consortium set up and supported by Green Alliance and University College London (UCL) – specifically the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources and UCL Public Policy team. It brings together progressive businesses and leading academics to identify how policy can best support green innovation across the UK economy and reward the innovators, entrepreneurs and investors who generate value from the solutions to the global environmental challenges.

Over its two-year programme, the GIPC set out to:

• Identify green innovation priorities across the UK economy, with a particular focus on hard-to-reach sectors, including road freight, buildings, heavy industry and food;
• Inject new thinking on how policy can most effectively promote and support green innovation;
• Create a new public dialogue between policymakers, academics, and business leaders on the challenges and opportunities around economic growth directed at green innovation.

Published in 2020, the GIPC’s final report detailed the results of its investigation, including sectoral analyses and advice to government and business.

We published a summary of the GIPC’s recommendations to policymakers.