Clean and green growth alongside economic growth must go hand in hand with greater protection for our environment. Achieving clean growth, while ensuring affordable energy supply for businesses and consumers, is at the heart of the UK’s Industrial Strategy.  

Significant advances in offshore wind, carbon capture, and the hydrogen economy will enable the UK and our region to lead in the transition to a net-zero carbon economy. 

Business delegates can engage with circa 30 exhibitors from around the region to learn about decarbonisation projects and top tips, and Student delegates can hear about opportunities and career pathways in sustainability.

Student Session: Ørsted UK - ‘What is the future of sustainable energy?' delivered by Lauren Little, Stakeholder Advisor (Humber)

Orsted, the people behind the world’s most sustainable company are joining us live to explore the question: ‘What is the future of sustainable energy?’. With a strong focus on careers and the people behind this exceptional company, students will learn about the huge projects taking place right here in the Humber region and what it means for them regarding their future careers and opportunities.

Business delegates can engage with circa 30 exhibitors from around the region to learn about decarbonisation projects and top tips, and Student delegates can hear about opportunities and career pathways in sustainability.

The webinar will explore the 2030 Carbon Neutral Strategy for Hull covering the eight decarbonisation areas including work the Council is undertaking on energy, the co-benefits of the flood adaptation work and Hull Food Partnership. The webinar will also look at some of the outcomes of the UK Climate Assembly which asked the question what do a representative sample of the UK population think we need to do to be carbon neutral?  This will be followed by a discussion with those attending the webinar on what we are doing in Hull and what we can do and the applicability of the climate assembly findings to Hull.

Managing the environment better and restoring natural habitats and processes can help to protect people from the effects of climate change. 

Nature can contribute to climate mitigation with conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural lands. 

Business delegates can engage with circa 30 exhibitors from around the region to learn about decarbonisation projects and top tips, and Student delegates can hear about opportunities and career pathways in sustainability.

Student Session: Yorkshire Water - ‘Living with Water’ Understanding how our communities can be affected by changes in climate and how they can be prepared for future flooding events, delivered by Margaret Boyd, Education Adviser

Everyone is responsible for managing water, both when we have too much and when we have too little. 

The Living with Water partnership in Hull and the East Riding are working together and with you, to build communities that live and thrive with water rather than fear it.  Working together we aim to reduce flood risk, build community resilience and improve place. 

Join Yorkshire Water for the Living with Water session to learn all about flooding resilience. 

Did you know that Hull and the surrounding area has the second highest flood risk in the UK?

The Living with Water session includes a recap of the water cycle, a description and explanation of flooding and how the community can be involved in preparing and planning for flooding events. We also discuss how the Living with Water partners are joining forces to reduce the impacts of flood risk and build resilience and how you too can play your part.

Business delegates can engage with circa 30 exhibitors from around the region to learn about decarbonisation projects and top tips, and Student delegates can hear about opportunities and career pathways in sustainability.

An alternative look at carbon capture via nature-based solutions. A project that has the ability to create a revolving financial fund, create employment for veterans and support posttraumatic growth.

Hear from our remarkably impressive selection of international business leaders, financial experts, and key government figures who will focus on the Humber and provide valuable insight as we continue the drive to net zero - all the themes of the week will be addressed collectively on the International Business Day.

The host of The Waterline Live podcast series, Jonathan Levy, brings his climate conversation to your screen with a major webinar of international guests to explore the latest trends in climate change, the global demand for solutions and the resulting opportunities for Humber organisations to respond and export their products, services and expertise around the world. Jonathan explains: “We'll be talking to distinguished international leaders from research, business and government to provide actionable insights into how the Humber can help the world avoid a global climate crisis.”

1) THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE: A situation report on the latest data from leading scientists around the world

• Johannes Cullmann, Director Water, Snow and Ice at the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (Switzerland)
• Prof Ralph Keeling - keeper of ‘The Keeling Curve’ at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA)
• Prof Peter Wadhams, world leading expert on Polar Oceans, Cambridge University and visiting professor to numerous institutions (Italy)
• Dr Robert Larter, British Antarctic Survey (UK)
• Francisco Oliveira, Ph. D. Amazon Scientist and former Director of Policies to combat deforestation at the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (Brazil)
• Robina Shaheen, Ph.D. Atmospheric Chemist and Data Scientist, University of California San Diego (USA)
• James Nikitine, Marine Science and Policy Consultant, Founder/CEO Blue Cradle (New Zealand)
• Prof Ratnesh Dwivedi, Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Scientist and Commentator (India)
• Carlos Sanchez, Climate Change Advisor (Switzerland)
• Prof Dan Parsons, Director of the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull (UK)

2) THE VIEW FROM THE WATERLINE:

A concise summary of decarbonisation and climate change related projects in the Humber spanning university research, offshore wind, carbon capture, blue and green hydrogen and water resilience.

3) THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE OPPORTUNITY: Leading business and trade advisors from major global markets assess the demand for climate change related products, services and expertise

GLOBAL OVERVIEW
•Graham Stuart MP, Minister for Exports

• David Livingston, Director, Global Macro and Energy, Eurasia Group (USA)
ASIA PACIFIC
• Natalie Black CBE, Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner (HMTC) Asia-Pacific
• Elizabeth Davies-Kumadiro, Head of Renewable Energy and Transmission, China, Department for International Trade (DIT)
•James Brodie, Energy Sector Lead, China-Britain Business Council
•Matt Curthoys, Director, Pitchpole Asia – marine and offshore consultancy
• David McCredie, CEO, Australian British Chamber of Commerce
AFRICA
• Emma Wade-Smith OBE, HMTC Africa
EUROPE
• Richard Burn, HMTC Europe
• Catriona Graham, Clean Growth Lead, Europe; Consul General, Milan
NORTH AMERICA
• Antony Phillipson, HMTC, North America

Business delegates can engage with circa 30 exhibitors from around the region to learn about decarbonisation projects and top tips, and Student delegates can hear about opportunities and career pathways in sustainability.

Headline speaker: Stephen Wheeler, MD, SSE Thermal, Chair: David Laister, Business Editor – Humber Business Live - Grimsby Live - Hull Live Grimsby Telegraph - Hull Daily Mail - Scunthorpe Telegraph

• Andrew Percy MP for Brigg and Goole

•Grete Tveit – Senior Vice President – Low Carbon Solutions – Equinor ASA

•Martin Cook – Business Development Director – National Grid

•Steve Scrimshaw – Senior Vice President – Siemens Energy UK & Ireland

Stephen Wheeler will discuss how the Humber can lead the way in low-carbon power generation – if you can do it here you can do it anywhere – and the role of the Keadby Clean Power Hub in achieving this, while ensuring security of supply and stimulating a green recovery in the region. This will include a focus on first-of-a-kind technology investments at Keadby 2 and the ambition to deliver the UK’s first power-CCS project at Keadby 3.

Panellists will then be invited to make some opening comments on:-

• the strategic importance of the Humber to achieving net zero

• showcasing the Humber as a world leader

• the imperative to invest to ensure local benefits (incl. skills/jobs/training) can be realised

• the opportunity to protect the region’s industrial legacy and move quickly to deliver a green recovery

The chair will open up the debate with some introductory questions before opening up to the audience.

Industrial clusters have the potential to be a catalyst in scaling up critical technologies like low-carbon hydrogen and decarbonising heavy-industries. Their network effect can facilitate larger-scale activities across low-carbon hydrogen production, distribution and storage, and end-usage through coordination between industries that are geographically in proximity. They can leverage their existing infrastructure, aggregate end-use demand and provide the business-case for larger scale production, all of which can help de-risk projects and facilitate larger capital flows. Attracting private and commercial funding will be important, however, as public funding available covers a fraction of the investment required.

Led by HSBC UK and IP Group, the purpose of this panel session is to outline the opportunities for larger-scale hydrogen and CCS projects in clusters as well as financing challenges/opportunities. We will hear from 3 key businesses in the region, all with investment projects to transition the Humber industrial cluster to a net-zero carbon future. These businesses will engage in discussion with finance to explore opportunities and address the bottlenecks to financing scale up.

Session to include:

Opening remarks:

• Introduction to Session by Ben Murphy, IP Group and Andrea Griffin, HSBC UK

• Amanda Murphy, HSBC, Head of Commercial Banking

• Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth

• Introduction of the HSBC Hydrogen/CCU Paper by Andrea Griffin, HSBC UK

10:00 – 10:30: Industry presentations from The Humber

• Richard Gwilliam, Head of Clusters, Drax

• Adam Beardmore, Centrica Storage

• Jonathan Briggs, VPI Immingham

10:30 – 11:45: Moderated Discussion- Finance meets industry

Moderator: Rob King, Head of Sustainable Finance, HSBC

Panellists:

From Finance/Investment

• Francis Sullivan, HSBC Sustainable Finance

• Ben Murphy, IP Group

• Charlie Donovan, Executive Director, Centre of Climate Finance and Investment (Imperial College)

• Macquarie Capital - tbc

• EBRD – tbc

From Industry

• Richard Gwilliam – Head of Clusters, Drax

• Adam Beardmore, Centrica Storage

• Jonathan Briggs, VPI Immingham

Wrap Up:

‘What BEIS is doing in space’ + reflections from session - Christopher Thomas, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Closing discussion (BEIS, HSBC, IP Group)

Closing Waterline Summit - Andy Parkinson, Chair Marketing Humber