2025 Agenda

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Setting the stage for the day, this keynote will discuss the critical role of infrastructure in achieving the UK's sustainability goals. The speaker will outline current and future government ambitions and the importance of collaboration across sectors.

This plenary panel will explore the shifting landscape of global sustainability policy, including the impact of the recent changes in U.S. policy, particularly its move away from ambitious energy transition goals and its implications for the global climate agenda.

Leading with a ten-minute presentation from Mark Fenton, Sizewell C on the future of nuclear energy as part of the clean energy mix, this panel will then discuss the roadmap to a resilient future energy mix, including the Great Grid Upgrade and leveraging technology to scale clean energy solutions.

Starting with a 10-minute scene setter presentation from a major European infrastructure project, the session will focus on its goals for modernising the water sector and enhancing sustainability in an ageing water infrastructure.

Embedding economic, social and biodiversity considerations into land-use and transport infrastructure planning to holistically shape towns and communities, leveraging innovative technologies and the latest advancements in public transport infrastructure.

Addressing the challenges of quantifying the return on investment and long-term benefits of nature-based solutions, including innovative metrics and evaluation approaches and identifying the barriers to mainstream adoption.

As the world faces increasing environmental challenges, the future of infrastructure lies in cross-sector collaboration at every stage of development. This panel will explore how consultants, contractors, public agencies, and private stakeholders can collaborate effectively to design, plan and deliver resilient infrastructure.

This session is an opportunity to break out into small groups to discuss challenges and explore best practices and innovative strategies relevant to each subject area. Attendees choose one topic discussion to participate in.

Outlining what makes a project “attractive” to investors and lenders and proving the RoI for long-term, complex projects and NbS, evaluating how the language around sustainable investing is changing and the implications of this and more.

Discussing how we can develop and mobilise the workforce needed to deliver large-scale sustainable infrastructure projects, aligning the needs of education and training programmes with the evolving needs of the infrastructure sector to ensure a future-ready workforce and more.

Exploring the key sustainability challenges facing heavy industries like steel, cement, and chemicals and leveraging supply chain collaboration and cross-sector partnerships to drive decarbonisation and reduce scope 3 emissions.

Assessing the extent to which the UK Planning and Infrastructure Bill will deliver a faster and more certain planning and consenting process and evaluating the implications of a lessened site-specific approach to environmental impact.