October 7, 2024

Building a Green Future

On 7 October, UKRI will hold an event in Westminster showcasing projects that support the clean energy transition and the development of a sustainable green economy.

Themes at the UKRI Building a Green Future Congress will include flooding, electricity generation, how to future proof the grid, making products last longer, recycling, remanufacture and reuse of medical technologies, solar power and solar waste, critical minerals, large-scale recycling for a circular economy, net zero buildings, e-waste, sustainable agriculture, and the financial cost of damage to the natural environment.

Journalists came to this SMC briefing to hear some of the keynote speakers talk about where the problems lie, the potential solutions, and what the UK needs to do to reduce carbon emissions and improve the environment.

Speakers included:

Prof Louise Heathwaite, NERC Executive Chair and UKRI Building a Green Future theme SRO

Prof Phil Taylor, Vice-Chancellor and President, and expert in energy systems, University of Bath

Prof Peter Hopkinson, Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the Circular Economy, University of Exeter