Procurement as a Climate Delivery Engine: Unlocking Faster Routes to Deployment

Procurement is one of the most powerful levers for accelerating the net zero transition- shaping what technologies reach the market, which suppliers scale and how quickly solutions are deployed across infrastructure, buildings, and energy systems.

Yet for many climate innovators and SMEs, procurement remains complex, fragmented and difficult to access. At the same time, major asset owners and delivery partners face their own barriers: rigid frameworks, unclear performance standards, cost pressures, and limited capacity to trial new technologies at scale. This panel will explore how cross-sector procurement can be designed to accelerate net zero delivery- creating faster, clearer and more collaborative routes to market for climate solutions, while balancing innovation with the practical realities of cost, compliance, safety and performance.

• What does “good procurement” look like in practice — balancing cost, carbon, resilience, compliance and performance?

• What practical barriers prevent SMEs and innovators from winning contracts and how can Tier 1 suppliers and FM providers help bridge that gap?

• How can buyers create clearer standards, better pipelines and more commercial certainty to encourage investment in climate solutions?

• How can public and private procurement align to create scalable routes to market for climate tech?