Mission & Strategy

UK CEED’s mission is to support the growth and development of the environmental/cleantech sectors and to promote the economic benefits of sound environmental practice.

Our Mission

Our mission to support economic and environmental development in the UK includes support for:

Climate Change & Environmental Protection

mitigating and adapting for the effects of climate change and to protect the environment

Resource Security

to support the move to plentiful, sustainable and less environmentally-damaging energy sources

Economic Development

creating jobs and economic wealth in the UK

Inward Investment

attracting new high growth cleantech businesses to the UK for economic growth and environmental solutions

Competitiveness

increasing the national and international competitiveness of UK cleantech companies

Our Strategy

Our strategy to support our mission includes the following key areas:

Growth & Development

provision of specific one-to-one and collective business support

Innovation Support

one-to-one, tools, finance, partnership, cluster innovation programmes

Internationalisation

market intelligence, brokerage, trips/missions, expertise, travel grants

Knowledge & Intelligence

sharing knowledge, better academic links, intelligence on new markets

Promotion

of cleantech companies/expertise/capabilities/facilities – inward investment

Investment

secure funding for cluster programmes and specific companies, including VCs/angels

Skills

creation of skilled workforce, plugging gaps, anticipation of future skills demands

Engagement

networking and facilitation of collaboration between cleantech stakeholder members

Policy advice and recommendation

lobbying, provision of policy recommendations to government