The ICE is delighted to invite you to the June session of its Decarbonisation Community Forum, which will focus on low-carbon procurement and development.
The ICE has created forum events to bring its core decarbonisation, sustainability and climate-change community together to explore topics of mutual interest. These are led and attended by senior experts and stakeholders, enabling meaningful discussions of key issues and potential responses to them.
This forum will be hosted by the co-leads of the ICE’s decarbonisation community: Rachel Skinner, who is managing director, transport and mobility, and executive director of government relations and corporate responsibility at WSP in the UK and Ireland; and Lewis Barlow, decarbonisation technical director at WSP in the UK, who is also the institution’s trustee for carbon and climate.
The event will include an update on the ICE’s decarbonisation programmes, along with two guest presentations.
The first of these will be delivered by Kirils Holstovs, senior engineer at AECOM. He will report on a recent conference on integrating net zero objectives into infrastructure procurement. This event was co-hosted by ICE North East’s Climate Action Group and the National Hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe). It assembled a wide range of stakeholders to share case studies and discuss how to identify and surmount barriers to making decarbonisation integral to the procurement process.
The second presentation will be by Rod Lovie, principal climate change officer at Moray Council. He will discuss National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4), Scotland’s long-term spatial strategy, which has introduced a requirement for planning authorities to take account of the global climate and nature crises in their decision-making. NPF4 also gives developers guidance on integrating climate adaptation planning in their projects and reducing their lifetime CO2 emissions.
The forum will culminate in a Q&A session.
