Place-based decarbonisation will be a key part of the net zero transition. Understand your role in bringing net zero to life in your community. Learn from experts what place-based decarbonisation means for you and your organisation and visit leading demonstrator sites throughout the Midlands. Develop the confidence to lead on the transition and identify the co-benefits of action.
Duration: 12 weeks with three hour online sessions and three visits to leading place-based decarbonisation hubs in the Midlands.
Commencing: April 2023 & September 2023
Cost: Free for self-referred learners
Place-based decarbonisation enables the creation of tailored context specific solutions to the climate emergency. At the heart of place-based decarbonisation is net zero placemaking which requires systems change approaches involving collaboration across sectors including regulation, planning, housing, built environment, health and social care, construction, innovation and research and engagement with communities. This course is delivered in partnership between SWM members Keele University and the Sustainable Housing Action Partnership, expert practitioners in place-based decarbonisation to help you understand your role in this transition. Throughout this course learn what is required to drive place-based transformations and how to drive systemic change including:
- The need and (trend) for place-based, integrated solutions to net zero and wider sustainability challenges and approaches to ‘Net Zero Neighbourhoods’, ‘Smart Local Energy Systems’, and ‘Place-based decarbonisation’ approaches highlighting the necessary integration of different energy vectors and systems
- Place-based decarbonisation as a complex ecosystem including issues of the built environment
- Introduction to a systems perspective and the enablers that support effective place-based initiatives, such as skills, regulation, technology, demand/supply issues
- Non-technical systemic barriers and challenges to place-based decarbonisation
- User-centric design and community engagement as a core component of place-based decarbonisation
- The role of demand reduction through domestic retrofit aligned to energy infrastructure capacity investment
- Data/survey and data management including digitalisation and digital data access; modelling; design; financing; dependencies on other sector activities for place-based approaches and retrofit
- Regulatory frameworks, finance models and procurement
- Different roles in place-based decarbonisation (the Councillor, the Planning Officer, the surveyor, the estate agent, the energy company etc)
- Circular vs linear approaches
- Individual and organisational action planning and development
- Case studies and site visits illustrating aspects of the topic
Skills Bootcamps are part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.
They are free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with a local employer.
Skills Bootcamps are fully funded for learners by the Department for Education.
