Executive Summary

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We have scoped and are working to provide everyone of our property projects with the opportunity to combine to achieving the stepped change the 1.5°C temperature limit of the Paris Agreement set. This requires global greenhouse emissions to halve during the decade to 2030 and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to reach net zero by 2050.  Notably, gas use has peaked and is declining globally with all-electric systems in the future leading to high energy costs. 

 

Various technologically mature options to decarbonise heating and cooling are already available, including energy efficient building envelopes, heat pumps, and on-site renewables. Any relevant technological strategy depends on the climatic conditions, building purpose, and existing infrastructure, and calls for tailor-made solutions for building specific circumstances. For example, heat pumps are the best option for thermal energy supply, while district heating, or cooling, is a proven approach in densely populated areas. Renewable hydrogen though is likely to play a significant role as a transition fuel or to replace gas given its current lower costs. Smart controls ensure that electricity use is efficient and can support new demand into the grid, with production markets for key energy-efficiency technologies are being continuously improved.

 

The biggest challenge though is the actual uptake of zero carbon technology and implementation of energy efficiency measures. Both depend on regulation, finance and the actors involved, while reducing emissions in buildings requires a comprehensive strategy to address the multiple facets. The sectors in which we predominately work is in a unique position through offering its multiple building assets to effect change, as it embraces a wide range of actors and can set the overall direction of the economy towards decarbonisation.  In this Study we elaborate on the key role this sector can achieve in decarbonising its buildings and the buildings of its communities. Hence, we outline in detail what this sector may need to do. We outline three major steps that we can help this sector to take to meet the underlying challenges of our proposition:

1.  Set out a clear vision and target for the transformation of its buildings functioning as utility nodes

2.  Develop a detailed strategy for its decarbonisation at the national, regional, or local level.

3.  Operationalise the plan with a broad set of actions that facilitate and incentivise the transition.

 

The sustainability and greening of education and training systems through a better understanding of how to measure what learners actually learn and how this influences mind-set and actions on sustainability at the individual and collective level. Capturing such a lifelong learning scope and ambition of learning for sustainability will allow moving beyond formal learning and even beyond education to measuring impact in the wider economy and society requires taking into account both education-related and non-educational factors. Address novel concepts and competences for putting forward in sustainability and climate change education, such as participatory and challenge-based education, living labs, exploratory and futures thinking encourage approaches encourage learners to imagine and create what does not yet exist and to relate to pre-defined targets and indicators.

 

Our proposition goes beyond test-based student assessment to monitor and measure impact and progress at community levels and uses hands-on and socio-emotional approaches, which are crucial for effective sustainability learning that could enable the global this sector to pursue smart energy generation and consumption in off-grid solutions.  This could begin to be applied to and through the assets of the local branches of this sector.  Through the delivery methodology articulated herein, an innovative solution that can meet current pressing energy needs, and yet can at another level, enable this sector to participate in great social, economic and financial benefits releasing a radical revitalisation of its mission.  At the same time the process and This sector can support the development of clean-tech Incubators and Accelerators under their umbrella that will empower young innovating entrepreneurs to grow while supporting this sector’s vision and targets for 2030 and 2050.  It is easily understandable that both ventures will directly contribute to the global and local This sector's sustainability and financial security.  Both are sources of income or reduction of costs, creating a sustainable operation through functional activity, for the benefit of the local this sector and those it serves.

 

More specifically, this sector shall acquire an immersive and intertwined virtual as well as physical multistakeholder ecosystem, supported by the existing networks and competence centres in the field of trusted and secure power generation and trade data value chains that will support pilot projects and innovation spaces for refurbishing and upscaling its building into utility nodes. In the future, this sector could have under its umbrella the innovative start-ups that will support its local this sector and their communities to deploy its strategic plan and increase its social and support the creation of a network of incubators that will host start-ups innovating in relevant products and services. The sector could also host an accelerator to support the development of micro-enterprises with innovative clean-tech products and services serving local and regional clean deal project development and deployment.

 

The Principals, have prepared a Feasibility study and are engaging with sector specialists, to augment have decades of pure development experience, by adding inclusive energy use to our knowledge base.  They have interest in the success of the This sector as a community offering and providing its assets with missional longevity and utilising what already exists.  This opportunity at this juncture, to structure, design and provide a committed whole of project financial and physical resource to property owning missionally active Christian organisations, such as the Local branches of this sector, to enable delivery of this sector, Charitable and Community projects that enable visions to be translated into property must not be missed. 

 

Finally, the opportunity to turn, what in the most hopeless of cases will be a huge burden in the form of the building, into a blessing and a blessing for the surrounding community, through its re-vitalisation and through the provision of an energy source at a reduced cost cannot be under-estimated.

 

Activity

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We are progressing a number of projects where establishing a utility node will be an integral part of enabling development.  As an integral part of this, we are participants, in a wide ranging consortium, bidding for EC funds as part of our aero carbon commitments. The project addresses the maximisation of smarter and cleaner power generation of cost-effective and technologically proven building-and infrastructure-integrated photovoltaic installations and we will deliver a pilot as part of the project.