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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
There’s plenty of work to do retrofiting our housing stock with 1.2 million homes across Greater Manchester and a commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 48% by 2020.
Now Greater Manchester’s Low Carbon Economic Area (LCEA) have commissioned Carbon Co-op partner URBED Co-op to develop a Low Carbon Housing Retrofit Strategy. The strategy outlines how Greater Manchester aims to cut emissions from its housing stock by 55% compared to 1990 levels by 2022 and to reduce carbon emissions from existing buildings by 1.8 million tonnes.
Carbon Co-op sits on the LCEA programme board, ensuring that the voice of community, Third Sector and social enterprise is prominent in the strategy’s delivery. The strategy outlines a number of ways organisations can become involved in retrofit, from community engagement and assessment to supply chain development and finance generation. Click here to view the draft strategy, the consultation is open for comments until 4th November 2011.
Tags: carbon emissions, Greater Manchester, low carbon, Retrofit, strategy
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Sunday, May 1st, 2011
Carbon Co-op partner URBED recently launched their Community Green Deal report at a major conference in West Bromwich on the 1st December 2010.
The report, funded by Sustainable Housing Action Partnership (SHAP), Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and Travis Perkins, presents the findings of work to develop a model for community-scale delivery of whole house retrofit.
Carbon Co-op are currently using this model to role out a mechanism for delivering household retro-fit that will benefit from the profitability gained from renewable energy installations.
The report addresses the challenge of delivering the Green Deal at scale across mixed tenure communities. It aims to
deliver the 80% carbon reductions pledged in the Climate Change Bill through 25 year community-scale programmes, ahead of the 2050 target.
This model is designed to work in any mixed tenure community adding value to Neighbourhood Plans through partnerships of local authorities and Registered Social Landlords, working with communities themselves in a format pioneered by the Carbon Co-op. They would then work alongside energy companies and local contractors to deliver the Government’s Green Deal with benefits passed to local communities through improvements to existing housing stock.
This approach tackles fuel poverty and benefits health and wellbeing. In addition to CO2 emission reductions, these projects will stimulate local economic growth and create sustainable employment in the new green economy.
Read more here: http://www.shap.uk.com/projects/shap10
Tags: Community Green Deal, Greater Manchester, Green Deal, Retrofit, URBED
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Innovation agency NESTA has been supporting the Carbon Co-op’s development over the past few years. Now they’ve produced a report looking at ways to galvanise community-led responses to climate change, recommending government be more active in creating the conditions within which community leadership can flourish.
The report demonstrates lessons for UK government climate change policy, drawing on communities’ experience of NESTA’s Big Green Challenge which has funded Carbon Co-op. There’s some excellent practical recommendations in there and it’s good to see the grassroots approaches to tackling climate change being championed at a high level.
Download and read the report here.
Tags: Carbon Co-op, Community-led, innovation, low carbon, NESTA
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