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The efforts being made to ensure the Humber region achieves net zero carbon emissions are being highlighted at a special engagement event for businesses and communities.

Hull and East Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership’s flagship COP26 event – HEY on the Road to Net Zero – is taking place later this month.

It is part of the Government-backed Zero Carbon Tour – which sees a 100 per cent electric battle bus visit locations across the country in the run up to the United Nations’ Climate Change Summit being held in Glasgow in November.

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The bus will arrive in Queen Victoria Square in Hull to promote the event and raise awareness with the general public on Monday, October 18, as the week-long Waterline Summit opens.

HEY LEP chair James Newman will provide the welcome at Hull City Hall, before Marketing Humber launches A Question of Carbon - a panel discussion session hosted by Louise Minchin and speakers including Liz Barber, chief executive of Yorkshire Water and Kelda Group, and Professor Dan Parsons, director of University of Hull’s Energy & Environment Institute.

It will follow the debut screening of a special COP26 film, produced about Humber efforts.

Advice and guidance sessions from HEY LEP will follow, working in partnership with sustainability certification social enterprise, Planet Mark.