South Ken ZEN+ Programme

South Ken ZEN+ - Leading positive change

Together the 22 members of the Exhibition Road Cultural Group (ERCG), a partnership of world-leading science and arts institutions in South Kensington, are committed to tackling the greatest challenge of our age. South Ken ZEN+ is our collective response to the climate and biodiversity crisis.

With the parallel aims of becoming a zero emissions (ZE) and nature-positive (N+) neighbourhood, we have joined forces to deploy our world-leading creativity and expertise in science and the arts to help us go further and faster via a collective approach that reaches beyond our individual organisations to meet our net-zero, nature positive goals for South Kensington.

Zero emissions
When the carbon emitted into the atmosphere is equal to the carbon removed from it.

Nature positive
When species and ecosystems are restored and regenerating, not declining.

The South Ken Zen+ Programme expands and amplifies the good work that is already happening across our membership through sharing knowledge, research and expertise.

We have four priority areas:

• Zero Emissions
• Nature Positive
• Circular Economy
• Sustainable Travel

The programme of work includes:

• The Toolkit: a data collection and reporting template to measure and decrease our carbon emissions
• A Charter for Sustainable Procurement: Shaping a sustainable supply chain together via a range of procurement commitments
• A Knowledge Network: harnessing and leveraging the existing expertise within our network to build a forum for continuous learning and discussion to deploy rigorous, practical solutions and accelerate progress towards our goals.
• Creating collaborative transformational greening improvements and identifying opportunities for biodiversity net gain across the district together with the local community, providing benefits to everyone who lives, visits, works and studies here.