Local Strategic Partnerships

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CLASP & LSPs

Throughout the first 2 years of the CLASP programme a series of bespoke facilitated climate change workshops have been delivered to the 23 LSPs leading on LAAs in the North West. This training aimed to improve awareness and understanding of climate change (causes, effects, adaptation and mitigation measures) by LSP members.

The training wass personalised to the LSP and strives to engage with the wider LSP partners, emphasising the contribution they can have in building capacity to successfully deliver change.

To view a full report of the workshops and for further information please contact Ailsa Gibson.

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Other Resources

Energy Saving Trust - Working In Partnership

This briefing note from the Energy Saving Trust contains a number of short case studies of effective actions local authorities have taken with local partnerships to tackle climate change.

Local Decision Making

The Sustainable Development Commission's latest report provides practical advice for local authorities and Local Strategic Partnerships on how a sustainable development approach can bring benefits to communities, services, the economy and the environment.

Sustainable Development Commission Case Studies

A new set of case studies, co-published by the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) and the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), demonstrate how some local authorities and their partners are tackling the challenge of putting sustainable development at the heart of local decision-making processes.

Who?	What?	How?
Cornwall	Integrating sustainability into strategy development	Sustainable Community Strategy and LAA
Birmingham	Taking a lead on climate change and sustainable procurement	Sustainable Community Strategy and LAA
Cumbria	Building sustainability appraisal into local priority-setting	Partnership working and sustainability appraisal
Sutton Partnership	Creating a genuinely sustainable local vision	Sustainable Community Strategy
Gloucestershire	Making sustainable development a cross-cutting theme	Partnership working
Hounslow	Evaluating sustainability	Sustainability Standard Toolkit
Islington	Putting climate change at the heart of the LSP	Climate Change Partnership
Oldham	Overcoming historic obstacles to develop leadership on sustainability	Oldham Partnership
Leicester	Using climate change to establishing high-level commitment to sustainable development	Leicester Partnership
Dudley	Sustainability as a cross cutting theme for the next generation	LAA (NGLAA)
North Somerset Partnership	Towards integrating sustainable development	Sustainable Community Strategy and LAA

Everyone in the Northwest has an important part to play in tackling climate change. Click here to find out what your business, household, community or school can do to help.