Leicestershire CAN (Collaboration to Accelerate Net zero): A framework for cross-sector decision making, governance and delivery to enable and accelerate net zero action

莱斯特郡是一个多元化的农村县，拥有复杂的行动者矩阵和实现净零所需的各种行动。在2022年制定、咨询并通过了一项新的全县战略和行动计划后，先锋地区计划提供了一个及时的机会，可以探索有效的治理和交付模式，以确保这些计划能够得到最大的执行效果。在各个层面，活动仍然是分散的、孤立的、被动的和不协调的。我们的项目提供了一个机会，在地方当局和其他参与者之间建立一个有凝聚力的结构，能够长期基于地方的净零规划和交付，能够有效地应对机遇和适应变化。我们的项目将开发一个创新的方法，并计划实施：* 一个创新的、共同创建的跨部门、基于地点的决策和治理框架，定义地方授权并优化整个地方的地方权力\* 一种交付工具，打破技术和组织孤岛，实现全系统方法的净零规划和交付\* 一种有效协调净零活动的方法，促进规模、投资和敏捷性，* 最大限度地利用资源、产能、能力和专业知识，包括优化社区能源的作用。该项目将使我们能够将参与者聚集在一起，制定针对排放优先领域的协调计划，了解热力、电力、工业和运输项目之间的关键相互依赖关系，并明确角色，如果没有拟议的框架，我们担心全国的净零交付将继续是临时的，不协调的和不同的。受资助的活动将无法以所需的规模和速度交付，无法在指定的时间框架内实现净零目标。我们的项目将开发一种结构，以促进快速跟踪决策;支持和促进加速基于地点的净零交付;以及通过协作交付确保一系列共同利益。

Leicestershire is a diverse, rural county with a complex matrix of actors and wide variety of actions required to achieve net zero. Having developed, consulted on and adopted a new countywide strategy and action plan in 2022, the Pioneer Places programme offers a timely opportunity to explore effective governance and delivery models to ensure those plans can be executed to maximum effect.Across all levels, activity remains disparate, siloed, reactive and un-coordinated. Efforts that are funded, lack the scale, pace, integration and investment potential required to successfully deliver the Net Zero Leicestershire Strategy and Action Plan.Our project presents an opportunity to develop a cohesive structure between local authority and other actors, capable of long-term place-based net zero planning and delivery, able to effectively react to opportunities and adapt to change.Our project will develop an innovative approach and plan to implement:\*An innovative, co-created framework for cross-sector, place-based decision making and governance, defining local mandate and optimising local powers across a place\*A vehicle for delivery which breaks down technological and organisational siloes, enabling a whole system approach to net zero planning and delivery\*An approach to effectively co-ordinate net zero activity, facilitating scale, investment and agile, fast-paced delivery within a complex matrix of actors\*Maximisation of resource, capacity, capability and expertise, including optimisation of the role of community energy.The project will enable us to bring actors together, developing co-ordinated programmes which target priority areas of emissions, understanding the critical interdependencies between heat, power, industry and transport projects, and providing clarity on roles, responsibilities and leveraging the use of local powers.Without the proposed framework in place, we fear that net zero delivery across the county will continue to be ad-hoc, un-coordinated and disparate. Funded activities will not deliver at the required scale and pace to achieve net zero targets in the designated timeframe. Moreover, they will not engender the required level of investor confidence.Our project will develop a structure which:\*Facilitates fast tracked decision making;\*Supports and promotes accelerated place-based net zero delivery; and\*Secures a range of co-benefits through collaborative delivery.