Resourceful
Futures
Generating Transition to a
Decarbonised World
About Resourceful Futures
Resourceful Futures helps organisations transition to a decarbonised, environmentally sustainable future. We concentrate on 3 focus areas.
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Energy and the built environment
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Resources
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Positive Communication
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We gather multi-disciplinary teams around projects to accelerate existing timelines, add value to existing work and innovate with new ideas.
We have a particular focus on making transition concepts investment ready and helping impact and ESG investors access ESG taxonomy qualifying opportunities.
Our Work
Renewable Energy & Urban Infrastructure
We gather professionals with significant legal, commercial, investment and technical experience around questions of how to accelerate deployment of decarbonisation infrastructure.
Recent Projects:
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Co-founder of global collaboration on thermal energy networks: Ten21
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Advising UK government on delivery models for thermal energy network projects
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Advising CODEMA (Dublin's de-carbonisation authority) on legal structuring of heat decarbonisation and city scale energy efficiency
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Advising investors on asset-class profile and commercial entry points
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ESG taxonomy and SFDR Articles 8 and 9 assessment
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Leading commercialisation of UK's first minewater energy scheme in County Durham
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Working with Transport for London on recycling heat from the tube into heat networks
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Development and promotion of London Wall Green Wall concept - more info here
Resources & Human Impact
We work with partners to solve some of our biggest resource, agricultural and biodiversity conundrums.
Recent Projects:
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Development of economic models for regenerative agriculture investment vehicles
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Development of sustainable fashion eco-systems
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Developing models for supply chain decarbonisation and offsetting
Positive Communication of Climate Change Solutions
We believe it is vital to apply relentless energy, optimism and positivity to our decarbonisation challenge. We generate ideas to help you bring the same spirit to your work, your organisations, your partners and your customers.
Recent Projects:
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Developing positive 'on the front foot' communication strategy to organisations transitioning to net zero
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Developing artist-led think-positive campaigns around transitional activity and behavioural change
Team
Founder:
Chris Garside
Our Team is led by founder, Chris Garside. Chris has 20 years legal, investment and commercialisation experience in urban infrastructure and resource management, especially heat networks. He has worked for international law firms Eversheds Sutherland and DAC Beachcroft and investment funds deploying capital into net zero infrastructure on behalf of the UK Green Investment Bank and European Investment Bank.
Chris gathers teams of highly experienced specialists from across the globe and across a wide range of disciplines around complex but urgent decarbonisation questions and scenarios.
Adviser:
Kristina Lygnerud
Kristina Lygnerud has worked on district energy since 2004. First researching innovation and risk management, thereafter working as a strategy developer for one of the ten largest multi utility companies for 5 years before progressing to the Swedish Environment Research Institute working on business models for low temperature heat recovery schemes.
Since 2018 she is on the board of the European knowledge hub on district heating and cooling and since 2021 she chairs it. Working specifically on the EU taxonomy for the case of district heating she is also participating in the EUs’ Investors Dialogue on Energy. Since 2022, Kristina is also engaged as Professor in Energy Sciences at Lund University part of her time.