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Reducing Emissions from Residents, Business & Transport
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Please visit: www.claspinfo.org
The information below may be out of date
Reducing CO2 emissions in Local Authority Areas
Statistical data showing Estimated Carbon Emissions by LA Area for the NW in 2005, 2006 and 2007 can be found on DECC's website via this link.
CLASP has produced a unique pack of 10 briefings designed to help
NW Local Authorities and LSPs develop Action Plans for reducing per
capita CO2 emissions in their area.
During consultations with NW Local Authorities there was a very strong demand for a list of what works and what order to do it in. Value for money, calculating CO2 emissions reductions, and real-life case studies were also important and these have been emphasised throughout.
Click here to view the briefings
Other Information Available on This Site
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National Support Programmes
There is a wide range of support programmes, advisory services, guidance and toolkits available to assist local authorities and their partners in working on reducing local carbon emissions.
The IDeA has identified a number of these and categorised them according to the nature of support offered (Training/ Peer support/ Mentoring, Networking, Guidance/ Tools/ Benchmarks, Policy Advice, Advocacy, Research/Data Provision).
CLASP has added weblinks and contact details where possible and you can access the full list by clicking here.
The Energy Saving
Trust
The Energy Saving Trust's Practical help programme offers a one stop shop support service for local authorities to help drive forward sustainable energy initiatives. They are expertly placed to offer independent advice on how to tackle climate change in the domestic sector and in your communities. Give them a call on 0844 84 888 30 or email practicalhelp@est.org.uk
The Energy Saving Trust produces a wide range of publications and guidance documents which are not reproduced here.
Energy Efficiency Loans
Has your authority considered providing interest free or low cost
loans to householders, to enable them to afford to install energy
efficiency measures such as insulation, new boilers or windows?
Wirral, Ellesmere Port & Neston, Manchester, Knowsley, Sefton
and Burnley have, and on 21st October CLASP supported an event for
officers from across the region to come together and learn from
each other's experiences.
Such schemes with low value, short term loans can be very efficient
ways of supporting householders and reducing domestic carbon
emissions. Wirral and EP&N's scheme had a total funding of
£85,000 and from that has been able to fund £277,011 of
energy efficiency measures. A return to investment ratio of 3.25 to
1.
To find out more and see the presentations from the event have a
look at the Event
Archive
Personal Travel
Planning 
The Department for Transport has just released a
practical guide for practitioners interested in developing a
personal travel planning programme (PTP). The guide is based upon
extensive research undertaken for the DfT in 2007, examining the
characteristics of 15 recent personal travel projects and provides
the latest understanding of voluntary travel behaviour change
programmes.
The guide sets out a step-by-step approach to the PTP process under the four stages of: planning, pre-intervention, contact and advice, and project evaluation.
The document also features Lancashire County Council's PTP programme in Preston and South Ribble which saw a 13% reduction in car driver trips in one of the areas, with significant increases in walking, cycling and the use of public transport.
Sustainable Housing
This Advice Note has been produced by 4NW and the NW Domestic
Energy Alliance. It aims to inform housing professionals, planners,
developers and other interested agencies about the move towards
building sustainable homes. It considers the challenges and
opportunities for achieving a significant reduction in carbon
emissions from the housing stock in the North West.
The Advice Note includes a summary of the relevant planning
policies and other emerging standards and assessment tools as well
as case studies from the North West.
1960s Flats and other Hard to Treat Homes
Such dwellings often fall under the hard to treat
category, and hence a wide variety of refurbishment measures
required investigation - many of which could equally well be
applied to flats which fall into other age brackets.
The Energy Saving Trust (with the support of Mears Group and Travis Perkins) has produced an excellent guide to the real life costs of reaching a 60% reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from 1960s flats. Download it here.
Renewables
North West specific Biomass guidance documents are now
available. These are aimed at:
Each document has been produced for 4NW by Nigel Blandford of The
Mersey Forest, and they are available to download from the links
above.
These are electronic documents only. However we are keen that they
are shared as widely as possible across the North West and so any
organisation or individual is free to host them on their own
website, extract and use parts of the text, or print and distribute
copies.
Community Activity / Campaigns
Wythenshawe Forever!
W4E was a project initiated by three
Manchester-based organisations with the aim to deliver locally
relevant messages about climate change to a deprived area of South
Manchester, Wythenshawe. From the outset, the project was designed
and delivered by the people of Wythenshawe, working alongside
artists, experts and partners and because of this a sense of
long-term ownership was created, reaching far beyond the scope of
short-term projects delivered by external agencies. In total the
project saved 6,972 kg of CO2 but more importantly locally relevant
messages were produced for people living in one of the most
deprived areas of the UK.
Click here to see the full case study
Business Engagement
The May Day Business Network is active in the North West and over the next few years, funded by the NWDA, the network will be running a campaign to engage businesses in the region. Click here for more information on how your local businesses could get involved.
Manchester City Council Environmental Business Pledge Scheme has engaged with over 1300 businesses of all sectors and sizes within the Manchester area, offering on-site support to identify and realise raw material and energy savings, enabling the strengthening of supply chains, the safeguarding of sales and jobs along with saving over 2000 tonnes of CO2 emissions and over ½ million litres of water. Click here to read the full case study.
Sustainable Energy Benchmarking Toolkit
The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) have developed the Sustainable Energy Benchmark and Toolkit with the successful councils from Round 6 of the Beacon scheme. The tool aims to help you reduce carbon emissions and use energy more efficiently in your local authority area.
The elements of the benchmark have been split into three broad
roles - 'estate manager', 'service provider' and
'community leader'. The tool asks you to consider which
areas of action will advance or consolidate your sustainable energy
practice, by asking yourself:
- what will have the biggest impact in reducing carbon dioxide emissions?
- where is your current performance least effective?
- which areas provide the best opportunities for making improvements
The new toolkit and benchmark are available here:
on IDeA Knowledge
Used it? Tell us what you think of this tool by emailing CLASP.
How you can help
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.