| Manchester's Commission for the New Economy along with partners and stakeholders in the sub region produces a number of feasibility studies and reports funded by the North West Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and others, to increase capacity in the area on climate change issues. Details of these can be found below: | |
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| 2009-10 | |
| A Low Carbon Economic Area for the Built Environment | |
| Manchester, the original modern city, has been chosen as the UK's first Low Carbon Economic Area for the Built Environment. This status will enable Manchester to roll out an accelerated carbon abatement programme, thus stimulating the economy, increasing employment and enhancing its hard and soft infrastructure, something hitherto unseen on such a scale by any other world city. | |
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To access a summary of this report here. |
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| Low Carbon & Environmental Goods and Services Sector Analysis for Greater Manchester | |
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The purpose of the study is to understand the strength of existing Greater Manchester Environmental, Renewable Energy and Emerging Low Carbon sectors (core and supply chains), and to understand how and where local businesses could exploit potential new markets. This includes the potential scale of increasing demand and the extent to which local businesses could take advantage of these opportunities. Low Carbon & Environmental Goods and Services Sector Analysis for Greater Manchester - Jan 2010 |
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| 2010-11 | |
| Developing Future Energy Scenarios for Greater Manchester | |
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The report aims to stimulate new thinking of how we might develop pathways for delivering a low-carbon Greater Manchester, whilst securing the energy needed to meet our growth aspirations. The stark reality of our current energy profile challenges us to examine closely our existing policies and plans and how far these go towards meeting our contribution to national CO2 reduction and energy generation targets. The process of developing these future energy scenarios involved over twenty of our local and regional partners from the public, private and NGO sectors. This co-creation of future low-carbon pathways is essential if we are to develop a genuine partnership approach to meeting the energy challenge. Click here to download from the Manchester Is My Planet website |
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