Published 19 July 2024
Last updated 19 July 2024
Huge congratulations to Nick Drake, CCS Sustainability Lead for Net Zero Innovation, who has been selected as one of this year’s Net Zero 50 List for the UK.
The Net Zero 50 List 2024 highlights the ongoing efforts of 50 inspiring individuals from various sectors across the UK who are leading the charge towards decarbonisation.
The list is compiled by the Net Zero Advisory Panel, made up of senior technology, business and impact experts.
By assembling this list of exceptional talent, the panel aims to showcase the UK’s role in global sustainability efforts and to advance cross-sector conversations. This helps create a network focused on innovative solutions for achieving Net Zero.
Nick was invited to an official reception at the House of Lords to mark the launch of this year’s list.
Nick welcomed the accolade, saying:
Being recognised as a Net Zero 50 leader is a tribute to the tremendous work done by the whole CCS Sustainability and Carbon Net Zero team, and for CCS’s role as an organisation in accelerating Net Zero progress.
Over the last few years we’ve made significant steps in internal engagement, learning and development, supplier and customer engagement, Net Zero innovation, Carbon Reduction Plans and our wider Sustainability strategy.
This award should further open up strategic relationships across Government, with suppliers and customers. I look forward to us embracing this renewed vigour and the opportunity for collaboration and action to achieve our Net Zero target.
Joe Tilley, Sustainability Director and Strategic Portfolio, added:
This is a major recognition of the outstanding work that Nick, the Sustainability team and CCS as a whole has been putting into positioning us as a leader in finding solutions to the Net Zero and wider Sustainability challenge.
Our unique position at the core of public sector procurement gives us an outsize influence in decarbonising the UK economy.
We can work with both suppliers and customers to achieve results at both ends of the procurement cycle – giving CCS a real multiplier effect and maximising the economic and social benefits of sustainability.
Nick’s place in the Net Zero 50 list is proof of the success we’re finding in our innovative approach to Net Zero.