Haringey Council in partnership with Retrofitworks and Parity Projects intends to tackle the non-technical barriers to domestic retrofit. Through the implementation of a SME outreach and mentoring programme it aims to increase the capacity and capabilities of existing SMEs to benefit from the retrofit market. The numbers of existing contractors is insufficient to meet Net Zero, and the project will pilot ways to de-risk expansion. Alongside this it will harness and look to increase demand for retrofit through a number of innovative approaches. This will include an initiative to demonstrate unmet demand and result in retrofit contracts, as well as a Neighbourhood Retrofit Grant Scheme to encourage a street approach to retrofit. Homes produce 50% of the borough's total carbon emissions, through electricity demand and heating requirements. Over 100,000 homes will require retrofitting to meet the boroughs net zero target. In the long term the funded project has the potential to not only reduce carbon emission but deliver more jobs within the borough and improve the health and wellbeing of our residents through increasing thermal comfort, damp issues, and reduced fuel bills.

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Newham Council has ambitious targets to become carbon neutral by 2030, and to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050\. There is a clear political commitment set out in the 2022 Corporate Plan, _Building a Fairer Newham_, with priorities and actions targeted to achieve this ambition, including the priority to support transition towards a green, inclusive economy. The recently completed Green Economy Action Plan sets out the case, strategic opportunity, and potential next steps to enabling a Green Economy (GE) in Newham. It underlines that over the next decade, Newham's economy must transition to one that delivers for people and the planet. Failure to do so will inhibit the borough's ability to meet net zero targets, and leave residents unprepared to face an uncertain future with limited ability to benefit from emerging opportunities. Our programme proposes an innovative participatory approach using mixed methods and research in behavioural psychology, to build long-term governance and capacity to achieve long-term systemic change. It will work across the Council and with diverse businesses and communities to understand the barriers to uptaking sustainable practices, to understand and challenge perceptions, and to collectively build a transition plan. This will incorporate four key programmes of work: two of these (resource and governance, and enabling, empowering and encouraging behaviour change amongst residents and businesses) focus on communications, engagement and governance to enable long-term socio-technical change. The other two (enhancing Newham's strategic influence in the GE, and building wider skills and capacity to deliver) focus on how changes to regulation, policy, technical guidance and skills can quickly build capacity for change. Alongside this work, supported by Fast Followers access to technical expertise, the programme will explore the potential of sector-specific Green Economy catalyst hubs to build and respond to locally-relevant opportunities in the Green Economy. The GE Lead recruited in this programme will play a senior, strategic role in the local authority, reporting directly to the Director of Community Wealth Building and working closely with the Director of Climate Action to provide leadership and advocacy at the heart of the organisation. From this place and by working closely with UEL to deliver a pioneering and innovative programme of engagement and capacity-building, the officer will enable long-term system and cultural change within LBN and across the borough necessary for a meaningful transition towards a green economy.

JUST STREETS is the project proposal from a team of 30 partners from 17 countries, including 12 cities representing more than 4,5m citizens. It aims to transform cities’ car-centered mobility narratives that take for granted that streets are for motorized traffic only, promoting walking, cycling and other active modes of mobility. JUST STREETS will be re-shaping street infrastructure and changing individual mobility behavior in 12 cities, while proactively sharing the generated “how-to-do-it” knowledge with hundreds of cities for rapid replication across Europe. In close collaboration with citizens, policy makers, experts, and interest groups the project will not only develop a new vision of spatial justice where streets become public space for all, but equally important find ways to rapidly implement changes. A strong focus is on displaying how necessary transformations in the face of climate change can (and must) successfully improve social justice, accessibility, inclusivity, and security along the way. Putting marginalized social groups, the most vulnerable mobility users, as well as those citizens at the core of JUST STREETS that have been previously underrepresented in mobility infrastructure decision-making will allow the project to create highly valuable knowhow, critical in creating better, more just, and sustainable cities for all citizens. The unique composition of the JUST STREET consortium is critical in making sure this knowledge is not only created, but subsequently shared with as many urban decision makers as possible from cities across Europe who have the means to initiate transformation in their cities. Top-level research and organizations with vast experience in the fields of mobility, urban planning, climate change, and social transformation are collaborating with the communication and dissemination expert partners who have established channels to reach and interact with tens of thousands urban decision-makers that will shape the future of cities

The project will undertake a feasibility study in the London borough of Lambeth, in partnership with key stakeholders, to accelerate the transition to net zero by testing innovative approaches to unlocking non-technical systemic barriers. Similar Council approaches have focused on modal shifts without a joined-up approach, limiting their impact. In order to achieve the necessary scale required, this project focuses on delivering a holistic neighbourhood approach to address building typology and stakeholder challenges. This will unlock the latent capacities already within our communities. Lambeth has assembled a unique set of partners and subcontractors to create a local net-zero systems framework using modern data (LSBU), based on community/grounded projects in Lambeth (Repowering London), validated against monitored data (BSRIA), generalisable into a borough-wide strategy (Parity Projects), and maximising the impact for the local economy and supply chains (Sustainable Ventures). Lambeth has the largest UK cluster of sustainable businesses based at Sustainable Ventures offices, to boost its low carbon economy, one of its priority growth sectors. Lambeth Council's goal is to be net-zero compatible by 2030\. Successful pilots have been established, but non-technical barriers have prevented a sustainable and scalable systems-approach. This project is to scope and implement an area-based approach to net zero systems-change across heat, power, mobility and product manufacture, across: 1. Infrastructure: Create a sustainable and replicable net-zero infrastructure delivery model using an area-based approach across: buildings, transport, business, services. 2. Finance: Use a 'green neighbourhoods as a service' model to address fragmentation in financing and deliver economies of scale. 3. People: A communication strategy for how the net zero transition will benefit how people live and work in Lambeth. A framework to grow knowledge/skills levels and understand local views to feed back into infrastructure plans. 4. Data: Create a sector-leading approach to modern data to link all objectives. Allowing technologies and systems to collaborate without boundaries and improve knowledge/information/data (KID) flow within the supply chain. No existing tool connects Local Area Energy Planning to socio-economic priorities in urban areas, or to community priorities at neighbourhood level. Nor do they specifically address the challenges of retrofitting multi-storey buildings, which is a big problem in Lambeth. This integrated approach will reduce the cost of National Grid's underground network reinforcement works (and waste heat from cable cooling) in Lambeth to local district heating schemes. EV charging infrastructure and community car clubs could be incorporated into engagement and retrofit strategies, and linked to Lambeth's transport strategy.