A vision of a greener and more prosperous Humber has been promoted to attendees of a major international low carbon conference.
Future Humber, the area's place promotion body, presented its Humber 2030 Vision prospectus at the Innovation Zero Congress which attracted more than 12,000 visitors to the London Olympia. The organisation partnered with companies such as RWE, Phillips 66, Drax and SSE Thermal to create a Humber Pavilion where a potential £15bn of investment opportunities in the Energy Estuary were showcased to delegates.
The 2030 Vision sets out how the Humber - the UK's largest carbon emitter - offers what Future Humber says is the single biggest industrial decarbonisation opportunity that could create thousands of jobs. It follows last month's unveiling of the promotional body's new brand and refreshed board having previously operated as Marketing Humber.
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The Future Humber team at the Innovation Zero Congress included managing director Dr Diana Taylor. She said: "The Humber has huge decarbonisation ambitions and we’ve made important strides on our journey to net zero – but we must grasp the opportunity before us.
“Now is our time and, by working together under the shared messaging of the Humber 2030 Vision, we can achieve our ambitions of creating a sustainable, thriving green economy. As a convenor, Future Humber, supported by the strength of our network of Bondholders, is helping unite the region and share its story to influential decision-makers.
"There was an incredible amount of interest in the Humber 2030 Vision across the two days at the Innovation Zero Congress and visitors to our pavilion were fascinated by the level of activity, investment and potential for our region to lead the UK’s green economic recovery."
The Future Humber team were also joined by Henri Murison, chief executive of The Northern Powerhouse Partnership, who is also a member of the new Future Humber board of directors. Mr Murison said: “We need to put real energy into collaboration across the North, not competition, to achieve our goal of a prosperous green future.
“There’s been an incredible amount of work carried out across the Humber to get where we are, and significant progress has been made, but we’ll only get to where we want and need to be internationally by the scale of the prize for decarbonising industry on the Humber being secured.
"The Humber 2030 Vision represents a potential £15 billion investment in the region, which would be truly transformative. We need government to move more quickly to secure this investment and gain the benefits to UK plc of it being spent."
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