Below are the actions within the 'Encourage' section of the Climate Change Action Plan, with links to the responsible Lead Organisations and Progress Updates.
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7. Encourage the installation of microgeneration and energy efficient technologies and maximise regional access to financial mechanisms to reduce upfront costs for: |
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7.1 Commercial property owners and |
Northwest Regional Development Agency | Info |
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7.2 Householders (including the fuel poor) |
Domestic Energy Alliance | Info |
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8. Promote regional pledge initiatives to encourage individuals, groups and organisations to identify and take action to reduce their resource use. |
Northwest Regional Development Agency | Info |
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9. Support initiatives to encourage the use of sustainable transport (e.g. through the use of demand management measures). |
North West Regional Assembly | Info |
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10. Implement a regional carbon offsetting scheme to mitigate for unavoidable carbon emissions. |
Northwest Regional Development Agency | Info |
| 11. Introduce criteria attached to public sector capital spend on new and refurbished developments through grant conditions which go beyond minimum standards for energy and resource use, on-site renewable energy production, sustainable transport planning and climate change adaptation. | Northwest Regional Development Agency | Info |