How verification drives confidence in climate action: experts gather in Birmingham to share success
Salix to spotlight carbon-saving success stories at Verify 2025
Salix to spotlight carbon-saving success stories at Verified 2025
The stories behind Salix’s carbon-cutting projects will take centre stage next month as three colleagues share their expertise at Verified 2025 - a national conference dedicated to celebrating evidence-backed energy and carbon-saving success.
The event, taking place on 4 November at IET Birmingham: Austin Court in Birmingham, will bring together leading voices from across the public and private sectors to explore the vital role of measurement, verification, and transparency in achieving the UK’s net-zero goals.
Why verification matters
Accurately measuring and verifying carbon savings is essential to ensuring that every pound invested in decarbonisation delivers genuine impact.
Robust verification not only builds confidence in reported results but also helps refine future funding and policy decisions. Without a strong evidence base, it’s impossible to know whether the technologies and interventions being funded are achieving their intended outcomes.
At Salix, we’re at the forefront of this challenge, working with hundreds of public sector organisations to ensure that projects funded through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme are monitored, verified, and continuously improved.
Through our Annual Carbon Reporting (ACR) programme, we collect and analyse data on energy consumption and carbon performance across a wide range of the public sector projects we work with - from hospital heat decarbonisation to school retrofits. This evidence helps demonstrate real-world carbon reductions and provides invaluable feedback to policymakers, project teams, and the wider net-zero community.
Collaboration for credible impact
Salix has also been working closely with EEVS, organisers of Verified 2025, to support greater alignment between project reporting and industry standards for measurement and verification. Together, we aim to strengthen the evidence base that underpins the UK’s decarbonisation efforts.
Our Salix energy and carbon programme manager Christian Smaditch said:
“It’s a privilege to be able to share our learning, but also to collaborate with others and find ways we can work together and improve what we do. Reliable data and verified outcomes are at the heart of effective climate action. When we can prove that a project works, we can inspire confidence, attract investment, and accelerate progress.”
Meet our speakers at Verified 2025
Christian Smaditch - energy and carbon programme manager
Christian helps deliver value for money through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, turning government net-zero policy into measurable, practical outcomes. He helped establish Scotland’s Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Fund and Wales’ Digarbon scheme and leads Salix’s Annual Carbon Reporting work. Currently completing a PhD on net-zero expenditure in the UK public sector, he specialises in low-carbon policy, investment risk, and net-zero economics.
Victoria Clarke - senior energy and carbon programme analyst
Victoria works with public sector organisations to deliver energy efficiency and low-carbon upgrades, ensuring projects meet funding criteria and deliver measurable carbon savings. She leads on collecting and analysing data for Annual Carbon Reporting, helping track the long-term impact of decarbonisation projects and identifying trends that support more effective investment decisions.
Jordan Noffke - senior energy and carbon analyst
Jordan focuses on improving the accuracy of carbon measurement, aligning our reporting processes with internationally recognised Measurement and Verification (M&V) standards. His work ensures that reported savings reflect genuine, verifiable reductions in emissions - strengthening accountability and trust in public sector decarbonisation.
Other speakers include Des Keighan from Swansea Bay University Health Board, Hilary Wood EEVS and Matt Caville from Energy Systems Catapult.
With keynote talks, expert panels, and hands-on workshops, Verified 2025 will showcase lessons learned, examine best practice, and celebrate progress toward a low-carbon future.
For us at Salix, participation in Verified 2025 underscores our commitment to transparency, collaboration, and continual improvement in how carbon performance is measured and reported - ensuring that the UK’s journey to net zero is built on solid, verifiable evidence.
The organisers, EEVS, have kindly offered free entry for public sector to the event using the discount code - FREE2025 - when you sign up online.
