Creating Sustainable Cities is an Ibex Earth led initiative that works with cities and towns throughout the UK to co-create, design and implement sustainable solutions that help local authorities, communities and businesses to overcome the challenges that they face in accelerating the pace, scale and financing of delivering local net zero and climate projects.

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Since 2018, Creating Sustainable Cities has secured in excess of £53 million worth of funding via a range of grant programmes that has helped the organisations that we work with to deliver projects that result in greener, cleaner and healthier places to live, work and visit. This has included projects that help build greater climate resilience by building the business case to invest in nature based solutions, work to establish the adoption of the circular economy and initiatives that have helped to decarbonise schools and public buildings.

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At the start of 2023 we decided to focus our efforts on developing initiatives that would help to unlock private finance into local net zero and climate action. After all somewhere between 70% to 80% of the finance that is required globally to decarbonise our planet must come from the private sector. Yet, in practice this funding is not finding its way to the cities and towns at the pace and scale required to see net zero aspirations become reality.

 

If we are serious about achieving our net zero targets and building climate resilience across urban landscapes then we must create clear pathways for private finance, enabling a shift away from traditional approaches to decarbonisation and sustainability programmes.

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