The Green Partnership

Climate Ready Portsmouth

Collaboration is key as we continue to decarbonise and accelerate adaptation action for a changing climate, ultimately creating resilience for business and ensuring Portsmouth is a Great Waterfront City to live and work in.

Dates & Times

Tuesday 18th November | 09:00-13:30 |  2000 Lakeside North Harbour

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About

This Green Partnership event will:

  • showcase collaborations for change between businesses across the city and beyond to share best practices and learning.
  • build understanding of opportunities for businesses in the decarbonisation and adaptation space.
  • consider how employers and employees are being affected by climate change, and ask what is the role of business and anchor institutions in employee engagement with this agenda?
  • Launch Nature Positive Portsmouth to the business community and anchor institutions in Portsmouth.

Who is this event for?

This event may be of interest to organisational sustainability leads or champions or those with an interest in employee wellbeing.

Event Summary

The event programme consists of:

  1. Pre workshop questionnaire or survey focused on business engagement with adaptation action, perception of perceived risks and understanding of impacts of climate change risks on employees
  2. Display tables in the atrium
  3. Two speaker led sessions with opportunities to ask questions to the speaker panel
  4. Site tour
  5. Feedback questionnaire
  6. Follow up email with event synopsis
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Agenda

09:00 09:40 ARRIVAL AND NETWORKING: – Arrival, coffee, networking including touchpoint opportunities with stands / displays

09:45 – 10:00 WELCOME (S), INTRODUCTION AND KEYNOTE

Welcome and housekeeping

Shaping Portsmouth – Why a Climate Ready Portsmouth matters (Dave Humphries)

Welcome – Lakeside  why sustainability matters for business – what employees want

10:00 – 11:30 DECARBONISATION IN PRACTICE AND THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES AHEAD –

 

10:00 – 10:15

The University of Portsmouth’s new Environmental Policy – Embedding and Collaboration

Phil Horton, Sustainability and Utilities Manager, University of Portsmouth.

10:20 – 10:35

Learning from a heat network zoning pilot

Service Manager, Environment and Sustainability

10:25-10:45

Decarbonisation and renewable energy at the Queen Alexandra Hospital

Trevor Mose, Head of Sustainable Development, Portsmouth Hospitals

10:45-10:55

Rolling out renewable energy at the port – a collaboration

Lee Howes, Port Environmental Lead Officer

10:55-11:05

Portsmouth City Council’s Energy Services Team

Owen Hughes, Head of Energy Services (PCC)

Questions to the panel

11:20 -11:40 Break

 

11:40  – 13:00 CLIMATE ADAPTATION – WATER AND HEAT

11:40–11:45

Adaptation the challenge (s) for Portsmouth and why collaboration is key

F Harris, Portsmouth City Council

11:45-12:00

Thinking differently, how the climate challenge is shaping a new business as usual

John Pickford, Commercial Director, Portsmouth Water

12:00-12:15

Collaborative partnerships delivering multiple outcomes

Joanne  Wood, Partnership Delivery Manager

Clean Rivers and Seas Task Force, Southern Water

12:15-12:30

Heat and employee productivity, absenteeism and wellbeing

Vera Trappman, University of Leeds (tbc)

12:30 -12:40 Panel questions

12:40 Nature Towns and Cities launch to businesses and how to get involved

HIWWT – why nature matters

Nature Positive Portsmouth team

Digital feedback- / survey

13:00-13:30 – Networking and site tour for those who have booked