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By The Bondholders

Launching the Waterline Summit 2023, this event will bring together international speakers, innovative thinkers, and industry experts as well as key government figures to discuss the crucial role the Humber region must play as the UK’s biggest carbon emitter with the greatest decarbonisation potential. 

Positioning the Humber as central to the global climate challenge facing world leaders and connecting the Humber globally. 

As we launch our 5th consecutive Waterline Summit, our first event will discuss the national state of climate change and explore the core themes such as adaptation & resilience, sustainable finance, built environment, offshore wind, carbon capture and the energy transition. 

Aligning with the aims of COP28, we will take a look at our regional progress made so far, discussing the progress and impact of actions taken by our local businesses and communities, as well as identifying opportunities for action where there are gaps. 

Businesses large and small will come together with academics, industry experts and young people, to learn, discuss and tackle the greatest challenge of our time, as we all work together to reach net zero. 

Host –  

• Katy Dukes, CEO, The Deep

Keynote Speaker (Online) –

• The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP, Chair, Net Zero Review

Panellists – 

• Henri Murison, Chief Executive, Northern Powerhouse Partnership
• Corrine Barry, East Coast Director, RWE
• Arianna Abdul-Nour, Co-Chair, Cop28 FLN Delegation 2023
• Professor Briony McDonagh, Professor of Environmental Humanities and Interim Director, Energy & Environment Institute, University of Hull

SPEAKERS

The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP

The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP has been the MP for Kingswood since 2010. He has served in five government departments between 2015 and 2020 including as Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation twice between 2018 and 2020.

In 2019, he was also appointed Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth, attending Cabinet, during which time he signed the UK’s commitment to Net Zero by 2050 into law, and helped secure the UK Presidency of COP26.

Most recently, he served as the Chair of the Government’s Independent Net Zero Review, and published the 340 page ‘Mission Zero’ report in January 2023. He is currently Chair of the All Party Group on the Environment and is also a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. 

Henri Murison

During his five years since his first appointment, Henri has established the Northern Powerhouse Partnership as the business led organisation which convenes the North together. From making the case for significant investment in key transport priorities and further devolution deals for the North, to challenging for a better deal for the most disadvantaged from the education system, his team are focused on how government, business and partners can drive the North’s ambitions.

Before joining the Partnership, he worked in senior research and policy roles in policing and financial services, and as a former senior local government figure in Newcastle upon Tyne remains a commentator on the political as well as economic rationale for Levelling Up and wider regional policy in the UK. 

Corrine Barry

As Director of RWE’s East Coast Net Zero. Corrine is responsible for delivering RWE’s global growing green ambitions across the Humber, Teesside and surrounding regions, seeking opportunities for further renewables deployment and decarbonising the energy and industrial sectors.

With a concentrated focus on driving the growth of RWE’s local portfolio of renewable and low carbon projects, which play a key role in ensuring a secure, domestic energy supply while delivering RWE’s and the UK’s net zero ambitions.

Corrine has over 13 years of experience in the Renewables sector. As a passionate advocate for the sector with a strong focus on STEM, ensuring students from all socioeconomic backgrounds have the ability to access opportunities and experiences. Having received recognition as a leading figure for her contributions to the sector as
Renewables Women of the year & Finalist for Social Impact

Arianna Abdul-Nour

As the current Head UK Youth Delegate to COP28 with the Future Leaders Network, Arianna’s work focuses on the effects of climate change on different communities around the world.

Arianna’s work heavily centres around the power of young people in advancing issues facing our 21st century global context, fostering partnerships and filling in lacunas and stalemates in international climate dialogue that are hindering our progress.

Arianna is the Project Manager for Island Innovation, leading on global on projects that help advance innovation and drive sustainable change across island communities worldwide. Within this role, she leads the Innovation’s Caribbean Climate Justice Leader’s Academy (CCJLA), which trains young Caribbean citizens up in UNFCCC negotiations and grants them a fully funded opportunity to attend COP

Professor Briony McDonagh

Briony McDonagh is Interim Director of the Energy & Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Hull. Her disciplinary background is in historical geography and environmental history. Her current research interests lie in the green-blue humanities and her work uses place-based, creative and participatory methods to build water and climate action. She has published widely on landscape and environmental change, on histories and cultures of living with water and flood, on women’s histories, and on the historical geographies of enclosure, commons and protest. 

Briony is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Water Cultures, hosted by the University of Hull’s Energy & Environment Institute. The Centre pioneers a new, humanities-led, interdisciplinary and transhistorical research area – the ‘green-blue humanities’ – equipping a new generation of PhD students to take this agenda forward and transform our understanding of humanity’s relationships with water in the green-blue regions of the world, past, present and future. 

In addition, Briony is Principal Investigator of ‘Risky Cities: Living with Water in an Uncertain Future Climate’, a UKRI-funded project learning from the past to build climate awareness today and for the future. Working with project partners including the National Youth Theatre, Absolutely Cultured and the Living with Water Partnership, the project develops learning histories for one flood-prone city (Kingston upon Hull, UK) and use arts and heritage interventions to engage diverse communities in building flood resilience. 

About The Waterline Summit 2023

The Humber region’s largest decarbonisation event, unlocking opportunities to provide sustainable prosperity for all as we look to lead the UK’s green industrial revolution

• Monday 13th, Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th November 2023
• Aura Innovation Centre, Hull, HU13 0GD

Over three days, businesses large and small will come together with academics, industry experts and young people to learn, discuss and tackle the greatest challenge of our time as we all work together to reach net zero

Event programme – a schedule of events for each of the three days is available at The Waterline

Student Sustainability Challenge – there is more information about this at Sustainability Challenge

Event and Exhibitor Opportunties – please email paige.mcgowan@futurehumber.com for more information

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