Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living Programme has provided funding and support to nearly 300 businesses and local authorities to adopt innovations to help their places prosper from the shift to net zero.

This podcast episode draws on learnings from the Net Zero Living Programme, and the recent publication Investing in Places (Investing in Places: Learnings for local net zero planning - Innovate UK Business Connect)

For this episode, Poppy Maltby, Associate Director at Regen, is joined by:

· Christine Zhou, Executive Director, Global Head of Built Environment Finance, Bankers without Boundaries

· Louise Wilson - co-founder & joint managing director at Abundance Investment

We hear about how the Net Zero Living Programme worked with local authorities to build their understanding and confidence to attract private sector investment into their projects and places.

Louise and Christine explore the different forms, functions and drivers of finance that can be used in place based initiatives, and how to tackle some of the challenges faced by local areas in bringing private sector finance into places via local authorities and their partners.