Business Development & Innovation

​Future Earth works in collaboration with innovators, translating the ideas and vision of our clients in ways that are easily understood and bring measurable results and tangible impact.  We support public and private sector in renewable energy generation and transmission development and financing; city-scale resource modelling systems (energy, water, waste); low-carbon technology sharing & trade; digital products and services for economic inclusion and alternative rural livelihoods development (among other areas of expertise).

Future Earth mainly works with three types of clients:
1. For (I)NGOs and National Governments we develop relationships with the private sector for project and program co-financing and implementation:

• Market gap/opportunity analysis & recommendations
• Feasibility studies and business/project restructuring to promote private sector partnerships 
• Private sector engagement and on-boarding
• Fund-raising (major donors including Green Climate Fund, private sector VC, philanthropies)

2. For low-carbon clean tech SMEs and green/clean tech organisations, we advise on business development, support to investment-ready stage and source investment for projects of £5-50 million through our partnership with Green Crowd LLP.
3. For private sector, we help developers and financiers of projects come together to navigate all the hurdles to successful project implementation be it research, engagement, project management or financing.

UK Foreign & Commonwealth Smart Sustainable Cities Initiative 2018

​"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 on behalf of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.  Working with a small consortium of partners including ICLEI-Europe, we developed an immersive program to bring 30 European and 14 UK cities together in London and Bristol to share knowledge on-site and match-make private sector businesses with technical experts from cities seeking smart & sustainable low-carbon energy/transport/digital IOT solutions.  

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

Partner Green Crowd LLP

Future Earth is a strategic Partner at Green Crowd LLP, which provides business development and financial structuring advice to
green and clean tech businesses in the UK and emerging markets across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.  

DFID UK Aid Future Cities Africa

Energy Saving Trust E-Steps

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.

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.

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.