According to Cleantech, Eight leading UK cleantech start-ups, businesses and investors came together to launch Cleantech for UK, a coalition with combined funds of over £6 billion, which aims to pave the way for a new generation of global cleantech champions in the UK. The initiative, which met for the first time at Imperial College London, is supported by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and organised by Cleantech Group.
The founding coalition members were joined by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Bill Gates, and three leading UK cleantech companies for the launch event, where participants discussed how the UK can lead the world in pioneering clean solutions on the path to net-zero emissions.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said, “Green innovation will help the UK solve the challenges of net zero and provide job opportunities. as he and Bill Gates visited a tech project in central London.
Bill Gates, said: “It’s great to see clean-tech businesses, innovators and policymakers coming together to advance UK climate leadership”.
The coalition aiming to open the door to a new generation of green technology start-ups and the Prime Minister and the Microsoft co-founder met those behind the project at Imperial College London.
Cleantech Group has received more than $7 billion of private funding and is supported by Mr Gates’s sustainable energy programme Breakthrough Energy and organised by Cleantech Group.
Mr Sunak said the investment would go towards meeting the UK’s target of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, as well as creating jobs.
Rishi Sunak, speaking to broadcasters at the university’s campus in central London, said: I’m here at Imperial College with Bill Gates, where we’ve been talking about our shared priorities and securing the UK’s status as a science superpower.
“Also welcome today is the announcement of billions of pounds of extra private funding for our best clean-tech companies. I met some of the innovative start-ups here at Imperial College earlier.”
“It is fantastic to see these researchers, scientists, business people solving the challenges of net zero, and creating jobs in the process. That’s amazing.”
Mr Sunak said the visit tied in with his desire for more innovation in the economy to help spark growth.
The Prime Minister this month reshaped Whitehall, dismantling the former Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) to create three distinct departments for innovation, energy security and business.
“I set out at the beginning of the year my priorities and one of them was to grow the economy, and it is really important that we get science and innovation right,” he added.
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