Facilitation and engagement

Innovation & Investment

Innovation is in Future Earth's DNA. We work with the UN, governments, INGOs and the private sector to develop ground-breaking inclusive low-carbon products and services in ways that are commercially sustainable and result in measurable impact.

Do you have an innovative project which needs finance to develop and scale?
Do you need help in navigating the climate finance landscape (donors, private co-finance, philanthropies)?
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Future Earth wins Innovate UK Energy Catalyst funding

Lead partner developing enhanced monitoring and data analytics with INNOVEX Uganda, for improved operations and maintenance and verification of carbon savings from off-grid productive use solar systems across 3 sub-Saharan countries.

UK Minister for Climate, Graham Stuart at COP27 “I am delighted to announce the outcome of Energy Catalyst Round 9 which will award more than £26m of Ayrton funding to clean energy innovators working in 25 countries, including 16 countries in Africa, pioneering solutions on energy storage, green grids, hydrogen, clean cooking, and more.” (we are the exciting "and more"!)

UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office - Smart Sustainable Cities Initiative

Cutting edge innovations, showcased across 40 European cities

"Everybody says they've really learnt a huge amount... we've had cities from A - Athens to Z - Zagreb here... we're really delighted to see it's been so productive and are looking forward to taking it further" says Caroline Wilson.

Future Earth Ltd designed and delivered the inaugural Smart Sustainable Cities Initiative for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Working with partners including ICLEI-Europe, we convened 30 European and 14 UK city Mayors and Aides to share knowledge and match-make with private sector solutions for smart & sustainable low-carbon energy/transport/digital IOT challenges.

eV transport - energy efficiency in buildings - smart grids & renewable energy - circular economy - data management - internet of things - e-ticketing

Sustainable financing for Accra's energy, waste and water management

Future Earth led the first GCF Readiness Proposal for the Government of Ghana Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.
We supported the process of deliberation, analysis and negotiation with the Ministry of Finance, PWC and Accredited Entities.

DFID UK Aid Future Cities Africa City-scale resource modelling for urban planners

Funded by DfID, Future Earth Ltd designed & delivered the Stakeholder Engagement Strategy and Technical Capacity Building programme for our client under the Cities Alliance-led Future Cities Africa Project improving urban resilience to climate change, social and economic shocks in African cities. We were awarded a DFID A-rating for our client.

Outputs: resilience.io prototype; x2 peer reviewed articles by partners Imperial Collage; x2 high level workshops >80 participants, x8 2-hour capacity building webinars with international experts for >30 technical staff from Ministry of Local Government, National Development and Planning Commission, University of Ghana, Local Government and Private Sector stakeholders with raft of supporting materials.

Financial enterprise skills for Program Managers in Ghana

Future Earth used participatory methods in a series of capacity building workshops to build the social and financial enterprise ability of Team and Programme Leads for Catholic Relief Services in Ghana, introducing impact investing and forging the first programmatic collaboration with the private sector Vodafone Ghana to diversify the CRS funding base.

Financing Mongolia's renewable energy transitions

Future Earth developed and delivered a holistic capacity building program on the use of data and systems models for planning and financing in Mongolia funded by FCO

As Project Manager under x2 UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office funded projects in Mongolia, Future Earth carried out a fact-finding mission, feasibility studies, government and private and academic sector stakeholder engagement. We built capacity across sectors for integrated natural resource modelling and data management for spatial city planners. City Hall and the Economic Development Department were introduced to funding streams available under Green Climate Fund. Following the accreditation of Xac Bank, Mongolia successfully secured GCF funding.

Pyxera Global Service Corps for JP Morgan Chase

Future Earth Ltd worked with Pyxera Global to implement the first UK Service Corps program for JP Morgan Chase targeting the most marginalized communities of East London.
We developed Scope of Works for local charities and brought high-performing employees from JP Morgan to share their business, financial and pitching skills, hand-holding them through their placements as they experienced first hand the harsh, on-the-ground realities facing the civil society organisations supporting poor communities in rich nations.

Innovation for Economic inclusion

As Technical Lead for Economic Inclusion and Innovation at Leonard Cheshire, led and managed a portfolio of £4.5 million across 9 projects in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia (Uganda, South Africa, India, Bangladesh, Philippines and China) implementing directly and through local partners to bring new digital products and services to disabled men, women and children alongside the more traditional livelihoods.

Energy Saving Trust E-Steps

Shareholder and employee engagement is critical to many corporate CSR programs so for Energy Saving Trust, the UK's nationwide energy efficiency advisory service, Future Earth researched and developed the first of its kind interactive ‘E-STEPS’ domestic carbon reduction engagement platform for Civil Service South East & the UK Border Agency and sold on to BT and Co-op to recoup tax-payers costs.