How can we manage the cost-of-doing-business crises and deliver on Net Zero?

Whenever CeeD asks Scottish manufacturers how Government can best support them, they say one or more of three things:

• - help us find the right people with the right skills;

• - help us with our plans for expansion but lately, and increasingly so

• - help us manage the spiraling cost of energy. We've heard some terrible stories including businesses with full order books, contemplating closing the doors.

Addressing the spiralling energy prices that are placing acute pressures on businesses is an immediate and pressing priority for UK Government. This sits alongside delivering on ambitious mid-century Net Zero targets.  Yet without the right support for businesses in the face of the energy price shock, is there a danger that, as well as the risks to the UK economy through jobs, GDP and competitiveness losses, that progress towards Net Zero targets will be derailed.

This CeeD-hosted event with Jamie Stewart, Depute Director of the Centre for Energy Policy at the University of Strathclyde and hosted by Barclays at their state of the art campus in Glasgow Barclays unveils state-of-the-art campus in Glasgow will bring together perspectives from academics, manufacturers and policy makers to consider how efforts across industry, policy and regulation can be best targeted and coordinated to support a sustainable and prosperous UK economy.

Come along and hear from:

Jamie Stewart, Deputy Director at Centre for Energy Policy at Strathclyde University.

• - Jamie joined CEP in March 2020. He has 10 years of experience working in the energy sector and over three years of experience working in consumer energy policy and advocacy in the third sector.

Panel Discussion led by Dave Pearson - Group Sustainable Development Director, Star Refrigeration.

Panellists

• Jennifer Phin - Managing Director of winner of the Glasgow Business Award for Fair and Healthy Workplace, AC Whyte & Co. Ltd

• Martin Welsh - Managing Director, Booth Welsh Ltd

• Christian Williams - Business Development Manager, Here's the Plan Ltd

• Denis Adelmant - Technical Director for Energy, Veolia UK

• Eva Rainey - Business Energy Adviser, Business Energy Scotland

About the Centre for Energy Policy (CEP)

The CEP works with research, government and industry partners to understand and address the pressing public policy challenge of ensuring transitions to mid-century net zero targets deliver sustainable and more equitable prosperity.

Since its launch in 2015, CEP has established a solid track record of independent, rigorous and multidisciplinary research and timely and responsive knowledge exchange and policy engagement on energy and climate issues set in a wider public policy context. Focused on achieving real-world impacts, the Centre has helped shape UK and Scottish Government policy in areas including energy efficiency, industrial decarbonisation, heat decarbonisation and low carbon transport.

Come along at 08:30 for a spot of breakfast and networking and join in the discussion.