To meet the Mayor of London’s Net Zero target by 2030, we need to accelerate the energy transition of our buildings, such as hospitals, schools, and social housing.

The Zero Carbon Accelerator builds on the successes of the Mayor’s Low Carbon Accelerators. The Low Carbon Accelerators ran from 2016‑2024 and have helped save an estimated 157GWh and leveraged more than £250m in capital investment.

Designed in response to feedback from previous support programmes, the Zero Carbon Accelerator offers a more flexible and varied range of support to increase the ability of organisations to take action.

How are we supporting decarbonisation?

• Advising organisations on how to decarbonise their buildings.
• Increasing organisations’ skills and understanding of estate decarbonisation.
• Developing decarbonisation projects to be ready for funding, such as through the Mayor of London’s Green Finance Fund.
• Supporting organisations to manage the delivery of decarbonisation projects.
• Helping create more green jobs and investment in local green economies by improving the supply chain needed to deliver retrofit and decarbonisation. 

Research commissioned by the Mayor of London shows that many organisations across London need expert support to understand how to most effectively achieve Net Zero. Over 40 public sector organisations across London contributed.

The main barriers that prevent decarbonisation from happening at the rate and scale necessary to meet the Mayor’s Net Zero target by 2030 are: