James Johnson

Head of Regional Programme Net Zero North West Hub @Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Employed by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to manage the Local Net Zero Hub for the North West of England. The Net Zero Hubs are funded by the department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and support regional and local government agencies to respond to the Net Zero agenda. As the programme manager activities include: • Managing a regional team to deliver technical and business case energy and climate advice to local government, communities and businesses, including managing grant funding programmes and reporting to central government. • Promoting UK net zero strategy through workshops and events, including developing a comprehensive archive of UK energy and climate policy and industry reports. • Briefings for senior managers and leaders, including managing a programme of regional events in support of COP26 in 2021. • Technical advice on housing retrofit, including designing and implementing a multi-million pound local authority delivered housing retrofit grant programme across the North West. • Industrial decarbonisation, including project management an industrial consortium to win innovate UK funding to develop a cluster plan for the North West. • Working with central government and suppliers in the energy sector, networking with grid operators and innovation organisations. • Overseeing programmes to support the decarbonisation of public buildings, rural community energy and undertaking pathfinding research to inform national policy.