accelerating the pace, scale and financing of net zero & climate action
locally
About
Creating Sustainable Cities is an Ibex Earth led initiative designed to support cities and towns that fall within England's two-tiered local government structure to overcome the barriers and challenges that they face in accelerating the pace, scale and financing of local net zero and climate projects.
The initiative is based around collaboration and finding ways for the private, third and academic sectors to support local authorities to achieve their aspirations and enable the social, financial and environmental benefits of the transition to a low carbon economy be felt locally.
Since 2018, Creating Sustainable Cities has secured in excess of £50million worth of funding for sustainable city projects, helping to deliver work on decarbonising schools, tackling heat stress and accelerating the transition to a circular economy - whilst building the skills and capabilities of local authorities to replicate those solutions elsewhere.
Funding from Innovate UK has enabled us to shift our focus towards identifying opportunities and creating pathways that can unlock private finance and help fund local net zero projects ...at scale.
£50+
million
worth of sustainable city projects secured since 2018
'Creating Sustainable Cities was established with the purpose of securing funding to transform urban landscapes and make them cleaner, greener and healthier places to live, work and enjoy. It was soon apparent that without private capital local net zero and climate targets can not be achieved'.
Chris Livemore, Founder of Creating Sustainable Cities
Shift to Net Zero
