he UKCCIC is a partnership between Connected Places Catapult, Core Cities UK, London Councils and other local authorities across the UK aimed at supporting local authorities secure the necessary long-term finance for achieving Net Zero​.

Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and places.

The UKCCIC is achieving this through:

• Innovating new approaches and mechanisms for securing investment, testing and deploying these within the market.
• Accelerating the speed of collaboration between local and national government, industry and financial institutions by convening partners and promoting best practice.​
• Advocating for changes in approach to investment across local and national government, which help secure the levels of investment needed.​

This next phase of work follows phase one, completed in October 2021, and is part of a five-year programme focussing on the establishment of a Development Fund, supporting long-term project development…Read more