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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, September 18th, 2011
On Saturday 18th September 2011, Carbon Co-op spoke at a conference in Manchester on Co-operative Councils. Organised by Kevin Peel and held at the People’s History Museum in Manchester, the day looked at how local authorities can use co-operative and mutual models, values and principles to deliver better services and put people in control.
Over 80 Councillors from more than 30 local authorities attended, with representation from all over the UK. Speakers included Oldham MBC Leader Jim McMahon, Neil McInroy of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and Manchester City Council Leader Sir Richard Leese.
Carbon Co-op’s presentation from project manager Jonathan Atkinson outlined our work on engaging communities in renewables and the Green Deal. It highlighted how local authorities can use community owned and run organisations to involve residents in the low carbon transition.
Tags: Co-operative Councils, co-ops, Green Deal, Kev Peel, low carbon, Manchester, Manchester City Council, Renewables
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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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