The Net Zero 50 List 2022
We’re so excited to announce the inaugural Net Zero 50 List 2022. Congratulations to all those initiatives, individuals and organisations who impressed our judging panel.
Entries and nominations for the Net Zero 50 List 2023 will open in August 2023. If you would like to be notified when nominations and entries open, please sign up here.
In-House Net Zero
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i10: Carbon Offset
i10 feel that 2050 is too late to deliver on climate commitments, so they have decided to lead by example. In May 2021 they became carbon negative for that financial year. In March 2022 they went further, and backdated their carbon offset to the year they were founded in 2006.
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Lancaster City Council: Electric Vehicle Car Club
Lancaster City Council have teamed up with Co-Wheels Car Club to launch a car share club. The cars can be used by anyone at the council during on-peak times for work purposes. The vehicles have been distributed across council locations and accessed by staff via RFID technology.
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Protec International: Proplex ClosedLoop Remanufacturing Scheme
Since investing over £2m invested in their state-of-the-art wash-plant and recycling line, Protec have successfully launched their ClosedLoop Remanufacturing Scheme, enabling them to recover used plastic protection from construction sites, diverting it away from landfill and incineration.
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SAP (UK): Embedding Sustainability Into Our Software
SAP is a leading provider of software to the Public Sector and Companies in the UK and around the world. SAP aims to be both an enabler and exemplar for Net Zero. As an exemplar they have committed to being Carbon Neutral by 2023 and Net Zero by 2030.
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TPXimpact: decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation
TPXimpact are working to decouple their economic growth from environmental degradation by measuring, reducing and offsetting their impact on the planet, funding and supporting climate action, removing barriers for employees and raising awareness of the climate emergency through work.
Net Zero Hero
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Bob Gordon, Zero Carbon Forum
Bob Gordon is Director of the Zero Carbon Forum, an industry collaboration supporting the hospitality sector to reach net zero, together at pace. Previously he has held a range of sustainability positions in different sectors, including hospitality, retail and ethical investment
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Tom Greenwood, Wholegrain Digital
His passion for sustainable business, creating the website carbon calculator, literally writing the book on 'Sustainable Web Design', sharing his learning as he tries to create a truly sustainable business, honestly and openly sharing the challenges to inspire others.
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Rebecca Lane, Furbnow
Rebecca is CEO and Founder of Furbnow, a service that helps homeowners start their journey to reducing their energy bills and puts them on track to low carbon heating.
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David Pugh, Digital Catapult
David Pugh is the head of sustainability at Digital Catapult, a UK government backed innovation agency. David's work focussed on supporting the growth of digital clean tech SMEs in the UK as well as the adoption of technologies in the pursuit of net zero by UK industry.
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Michael Short, Teeside University
Michael Short is a professor of control engineering and systems informatics at Teesside University in the UK and is head of the Centre for Sustainable Engineering Research. He has been active in net zero research, innovation and and technology transfer since 2010.
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Andrew Smith, Crown Commercial Service
Andy has led Crown Commercial Services' training for the Carbon PPN (06/21). This training has been delivered to over 2,500 suppliers from global multinationals to the smallest of SMEs, and has been instrumental in supporting suppliers in meeting the policy requirements.
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Dr Jyothi Srinivas, Milton Keynes University Hospital
Dr Jyothi conducted a Staff survey in Oct 2022 that showed that most NHS staff were concerned about climate change and clinical waste in the NHS. Staff wanted easy to access and clear information on 5 areas to take action -' Carbon foot print, staff and patient travel, Waste in NHS, Medicines in the NHS and Energy use'.
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Michael Vasey, Durham County Council
Michael leads BEEP, which helps them understand their bills and consumption, and to provide support to identify opportunities to reduce consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by installing/upgrading to energy efficient technologies.
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Wei Yang, Digital Task Force for Planning
Dr Wei Yang was President for 2021 of Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). She Co-founded Digital Task Force for Planning in 2021 and took a strong leadership role to advocate for a systematic modernisation of spatial planning to achieve Zero Carbon and tackle grand challenges.
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Ally Zlatar, University of Glasgow
Ally Zlatar is an artist and climate activist who focuses on addressing climate anxiety, water treatment and the impact of the pharmaceutical industry on our environment.
Net Zero Non-Profit
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Green Tourism
Green Tourism is a world leading sustainability accreditation & support programme with over 2,500 certified businesses. They are experts in sustainability for the tourism & hospitality sector for over 25 years, based on three pillars, Caring for People, Places and our Planet.
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Heart of the City
A course for small and medium sized business (SMEs) in the Square Mile. We bring experts in sustainability and net zero together with SMEs in the City of London, and in four modules they'll measure their carbon footprint and set an action plan to reach net zero by 2040.
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Icebreaker One
We are creating a web of net-zero data – connecting financial, industry and environmental data to help inform net-zero decisions. As much of this data is restricted, we are enabling that web by creating policies and guardrails that ensure data is comparable & machine-readable.
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Open Innovations
When your website has lots of visitors that can easily add up. We've used the Website Carbon Calculator (created by Wholegrain Digital) to assess UK local authority websites, and build the website carbon dashboard.
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The Sustainable Futures Energy Forum
It's a deeply uncertain time during a cost of living crisis, and easy to ignore longer-term priorities like tackling climate change. Building a strategic partnership with Ofgem, we have established a forum of 18-25 year-olds to help develop Ofgem's policies shaping energy futures.
Net Zero Public Sector
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Crown Commercial Service: Carbon Net Zero Delivery Team
CCS is supporting our customers in the public sector (central and local Gov), helping them operationalise their net zero strategies to reduce carbon emissions through greener procurement. From the obvious areas like Fleet and Energy to technology hardware and even food.
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Defra: Sustainable ICT
The Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs drives sustainability on behalf of and across UK gov, the wider public sector and globally. This submission highlights our successes over the last year
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Dorset Council: Improving the energy efficiency of rented homes
Housing is a significant contributor to avoidable CO2, with private rented housing worst of all. We used digital tools to identify and improve the worst energy efficient private rented homes, not only reducing emissions, improving health and reducing tenants’ energy costs.
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Food Standards Agency: Giving our old IT kit second life
Through perseverance and tenacity, overcoming existing ways of working and ensuring security of information, the Food Standards Agency was able to give their old laptops and mobiles a second life with charities across the country.
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DVLA: Improving the UK's Air Quality
Delivering the digital infrastructure to support Clean Air Zone management and achieving the policy aim of clean air for all.
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Lenus Health: Delivering a sustainable NHS
The NHS is the world's first health system to commit to reaching net zero carbon by 2040, while today 40% of total UK public sector emissions are health-related. Evidence from a recent environmental evaluation demonstrates how Lenus services can significantly lower NHS emissions.
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North Sea Transition Authority: Digital Pivot to Supporting Net Zero
The NSTA is successfully using location intelligence and digital apps at scale to re-purpose old and new data for new use cases. This is providing completely new insights that support complex decision.
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Reading Borough Council: Reading's municipal bus service
A proactive approach to investment in bus priority infrastructure and municipal ownership of an environmentally-friendly bus fleet have combined to deliver attractive public transport alternatives to the car, cleaner air and lower carbon emissions in Reading, Berkshire.
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Salix Finance: Funding the public sector net zero goals
Salix Finance provides funding to the public sector to improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and lower energy bills.
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Shropshire Council: Developing county-based guidance to assess the impacts of ammonia
The ecology team at Shropshire Council have developed county-specific guidance on how planning applications for intensive livestock units will be assessed for their impacts upon the natural environment as a result of ammonia emissions.
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South Somerset District Council: Get SuSSed newsletter and dedicated Website
We have created a monthly newsletter Get SuSSed - Get Sustainable South Somerset Education and created a dedicated website SouthSomersetEnvironment.co.uk to impart and share information to inspire community action with our Environment Champions network, staff and wider community.
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Sustainable Scotland Network
The Sustainable Scotland Network is Scotland's public sector network on climate change and sustainability. We use a range of digital media to support capacity building and collaboration to accelerate action.
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Sutton London Borough Council: The InnOvaTe Project
The London Boroughs of Sutton & Kingston have put in local monitoring schemes outside targeted Primary Schools. The idea is we obtain the volume of footfall, modes of transport, AQ and then via active comms and engagement encourage the young children to drive positive behaviour.
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UK Schools Sustainability Network
The UK Schools Sustainability Network (UKSSN) brings together networks of students to connect and collaborate on issues they care about, fully supported by school staff. The UKSSN represented schools from across the UK at COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021.
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West Berkshire Council: Climate Change Bond
For the climate change bond, an innovative community investment that will deliver social value by financing schemes laid out in the West Berkshire Environment Strategy.
Net Zero SME
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Alp Technologies Ltd
Alp Technologies is an engineering firm specialised in developing affordable renewable energy solutions for off-grid and low-income regions.
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Advanté
Advanté’s innovation success has always been driven by the ever-changing welfare needs of the Construction Industry. We have supplied UK construction sites with low carbon welfare since 1998, using LPG as a greener alternative to diesel from day one. Further reduction of carbon.
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BeZero Carbon
BeZero Carbon has built the information infrastructure for the Voluntary Carbon Market, creating industry-leading ratings, research and data tools to help participants navigate a market that is set to be worth over $200bn by 2050 and play a major role in decarbonisation.
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Cemfree
Ultra-low carbon alternative to traditional cement that can save up to 85% in embodied CO2 compared to a conventional mix.
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ENLIL
ENLIL is a smart vertical axis wind turbine project that transforms highways into renewable energy sources by using winds created by the vehicles as well as natural winds.
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EvoEnergy
Completed in July, this project is an example of how to push the boundaries on every front with solar PV, curved carport frames, behind the meter batteries and future proofed EV charging points combining to solve a problem on a 400kW grid constrained site connection.
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Faradai Sustain
Faradai Sustain leverages powerful automation tools to easily capture sustainability data across your organisation and transform it into a single system of record. With it, owners and operators can track their Scope 1,2, and 3 emissions while tracking their sustainability process.
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Measurable
We help businesses reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions by automatically identifying, measuring and eliminating wasted energy in buildings. We achieve this by combining our unique smart sockets with machine learning to automatically eliminate wasted energy, cost and emissions.
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n2s
n2s’s Infinity Loop of circular technology lifecycle solutions, including the revolutionary use of Bioleaching to advance the extraction of valuable metals contained on every Printed Circuit Board (PCB). This is radically influencing companies’ zero waste strategies and decisions.
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Origen Carbon Solutions
Founded in 2013, Origen is a climate tech company specialising in developing innovative solutions to abate and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with the goal of enabling multiple ways to achieve giga-scale low-cost carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere.
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Paua Tech
As we transition we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to reinvent the way that we pay for and use energy in our vehicles. Paua is building the future of the fuel card; digital, interconnected and seamless payments with access to thousands of UK chargepoints.
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Petalite
We are vertically integrated business which has simplified EV charging with a highly patented, highly reliable innovative tech called SDC. It replaces the complex tech commonly used in public chargers. We remove short warranties, increase life x3, increases ROI and 99.9% up-time.
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Satellite Vu
Satellite Vu will be able to measure the thermal emissions of any structure on the planet at multiple times day and night. Identifying and monitoring heat waste from the built environment is imperative as we push towards decarbonisation and a Net Zero future.
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Spinview
We capture, translate & uncover the data for building & asset owners on usage, performance, & structure then translate to drive efficiency, optimise & reduce the embodied & operational carbon number of any building or infrastructure asset and ensure people can use & understand it.
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unpckd
To tackle the unsustainable amount of packaging entering our homes, unpckd is the milkman-style refill delivery service for the busy and planet-conscious who want an easy way to shop groceries that saves time, effort and waste. Online ordering, electric delivery, zero waste.