Unlocking Net Zero Investment: Policy, Pathways, and Partnerships for Scalable Investment

 3Ci, in partnership with Barclays, will bring together key public and private stakeholders to map out the blueprint for securing Net Zero into public sector initiatives and ambitions.   

The event will bring together multiple perspectives from local government, policy, and investors to explore the challenges of delivering net zero across the UK. The sessions will highlight differing roles, expectations, and capacities, aiming to build shared understanding and support practical implementation at the local level.

Agenda: 

• 16:00 | Registration 

• 16:15  | Welcome: The challenge ahead 

• 16:20 | A view from across the capital stack: The challenges of net zero investment 
  
  
• 16:50 | 3Ci Insights: Building the case for investment with local authorities

• 17:20 | Introducing Barclays Policy Paper: Unlocking regional potential in driving growth and the green economy 
  
  
• 17:30 | Keynote: Delivering green growth
  
  
• 17:40 | Networking drinks
  
  
• 18:30 | Event close 
  

A view from across the capital stack: The challenges of net zero investment 

How can we mobilise the scale of finance needed into public sector Net Zero? This panel features speakers spanning the UK’s capital stack, giving granular insights into the different types of capital and the factors that would lead them to invest into public sector Net Zero ambitions. The panelists will also discuss and explore how different modes of finance can collaborate to de-risk and scale up investment. 

Catherine McGuinness CBE, Chair, 3Ci Advisory Board (Moderator)

Stuart Leslie, Director, Local Authority Advisory & Lending, National Wealth Fund

David Galt, Director, Sustainable Project Finance, Barclays

Pete Gladwell, Group Managing Director, Legal & General

3Ci Insights: Building the case for investment with local authorities

Accessing private finance is essential to enable councils to deliver large-scale decarbonisation. To support this, 3Ci, with professional advisory support from KPMG, developed detailed Investment Memorandums (IMs) in collaboration with the London Borough of Hounslow and Glasgow City Council. Barclays provided feedback to 3Ci to help understand likely investor expectations.

This session will explore the insights and learnings that arose from this project, and the considerations of this as a future path to Net Zero investment. 

Grant Aaron, Senior Consultant, Investment, Connected Places Catapult (Moderator)

Mary Kerr, Climate Finance Manager, Glasgow City Council

Steven Wilding, Head of Net Zero and Green Economy, Hounslow Council

Natasha Schlichtkrull, Associate, Amberside Investors

Introducing Barclays Policy Paper: Unlocking regional potential in driving growth and the green economy 

Barclays will mark the launch of their new policy report that examines how local government – in particular, the future Strategic Authorities – can be empowered as drivers of the transition economy, and how targeted public policy can unlock the private finance needed to support local government deliver net zero and green growth. 

Sophie Fry, Director, Head of Sustainability Policy Development, Barclays

Keynote: Delivering green growth

What are the key investment priorities for delivering the UK's ambitious net zero investment plans, and what are the public-private sector models that are required in towns and cities? We will hear from  Mete Coban MBE, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy on how London is tackling this challenge and the key to accelerating the green transition at scale.

Mete Coban MBE,  Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy