The document outlines various initiatives and strategies for achieving carbon reduction and sustainable development in Greater Manchester, targeting an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. It highlights accomplishments such as energy-efficient building retrofits, increased use of public transportation, and tree planting projects. Moreover, it emphasizes collaboration among local authorities, businesses, and communities to foster a low carbon economy and establish Manchester as a model for sustainability.

2. #MACF2013

3. Steve Connor
Chair, MACF Steering Group

4. Phil Murphy
Sustainability Manager, Carillion

5. A word from our sponsors

7. Say hello...

8. Sir Richard Leese
Leader, Manchester City Council

9. Cities as Leaders

11. 2013: State of the City

12. Original Modern
Low Carbon City.

13. Carbon trends
10,000
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (MtC)
8000
6000
4000
2000
1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
(Graph adapted from Kevin
Year Anderson/Tyndall Centre)

14. Carbon Targets for 2050
UK 80%
EU 60-80%
Bali 50%

15. Cities hold the key
“The Top 20 cities in the UK are responsible for more
than 20% of national carbon emissions and more than
20% of energy consumption, so local action by cities
will be vital if we are to meet the UK national target of
80% reduction on 1990 levels by 2050.”
RICS 2012

16. A Certain Future

18. Manchester: A Certain Future
•41% carbon reduction •Low carbon thinking
by 2020, relative to embedded in our
2005 levels, and; operations and
lifestyles.

19. Greater Manchester Strategy
Shift to a low carbon
economy for GM to establish
long-term sustainable
economic growth.
At the same time as
achieving a 48% reduction
in CO2 emissions by 2020,
from 1990 levels (40% from
2005).
Approved in July 2011.

20. How are we doing?
7.4t 7.4t 7t 6.9t 6t 6.1t
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

21. Plans & actions since 2009
Action Plans Sector plans
• Both universities • Retrofit Strategy (GM)
• The Co-operative • EcoCities (adaptation strategy,
GM)
• Siemens
• City Council • Green Infrastructure Plan (GM
& Manchester)
• Bruntwood • Energy Plan (GM)
• Housing Associations • GMCCS Implementation Plan
• Environmental Business (GM)
Pledge + 60% in 3 years – over
1,800 businesses. • Low carbon hub/green
economy

23. Reasons to be cheerful

24. Buildings

25. Carbon Co-op

26. 75,000 ‘Toasty’ interventions

27. Since 2009, 32 high schools and
academies have completed
capital projects under BSF and
four new primary schools have
been built.

28. MMU carbon
emissions down by
18.5% over 5 years

29. Buildings
NHS Commercial property
•Carbon management plans •More work needed but
and coordinated activities successful MACF offshoot
through MACF NHS Group. event in 2012.
•University Hospital South
Manchester awarded
Britain’s Greenest Hospital
for reducing carbon
emissions by 28% over 5
years.

30. Buildings
Exemplar buildings Green Deal
•Two iconic buildings – one •Housing Associations and
new build, one retrofit – Councils across GM have
completing in 2013: the Co- developed a Housing Retrofit
op’s NOMA and the Council’s Strategy and agreed the basis
refurbished Town Hall of a GM Green Deal
Extension and Central programme to launch in 2013.
Library.
•Also been given a ‘go early’
approval from government.

31. Manchester Art Gallery -
energy consumption of gallery
lighting down by 60-70%.

32. Midland Hotel - Engaging
staff, guests and suppliers on
sustainability.
10%+ year on year energy
saving through new
equipment.
Green roof full of herbs!
Waste Management is to get
to 100% separation.
www.qhotels.co.uk

33. Energy

34. Co-operative Group
CIS Tower - Europe’s
largest vertical solar
array.

35. Carbon Co-op + Unicorn

37. Energy
Solar Photovoltaics Heat networks
• Over 2,000 solar panel • Proposals around Town Hall;
installations registered for the Corridor, and East Manchester.
Feed-In-Tariff since April 2010.
Energy centres and CHP
Smart Grids & Meters
• Low carbon energy centres,
• Energy monitors in around 400 including NOMA.
households and 100
businesses, public buildings Energy Plan
and on loan from libraries.
• High level plan completed for
Greater Manchester in 2012.

38. Transport

40. Transport
Metrolink Cycling
• New lines and stops, and new • City cycle centres, cycle training
vehicles brought into service. and grants for employers and
user groups.
Green Buses
Smart Ticketing
• 200 ‘green’ buses (mainly
hybrids) introduced since 2009. • Integrated smart ticketing will
be introduced over next few
Car journeys years starting with Metrolink
• Number of car trips into city
centre has fallen from 37% in
2006 to 28% in 2012.

41. 160 charging posts as part of
Greater Manchester’s
Plugged in Places
programme.

42. Green & blue spaces

43. Manchester has more Green
Red Rose Forest
Flag parks than any other city
in the UK.

44. Green spaces
Research Tree planting
• EcoCities and GRABS projects. • Since 2009, more than 26,600
trees had been planted,
GI policies including 26 new community
orchards and fruit tree groves.
• Incorporated into Council’s
statutory Core Strategy Third Sector
Planning Document.
• Red Rose Forest and
Baseline data Groundwork continue to green
the city, from tree planting
• Detailed baseline of all the city’s through to our first ‘Meanwhile’
G&B has now been established. food growing projects.

45. Sustainable Consumption

47. Culture shift
Manchester Carbon Literacy Carbon budgets
• A day’s ‘climate change’ training for • City Council has begun to use data
all residents and employees, 50 from energy bills to allocate carbon
pilot projects have been undertaken budgets to departments, embedding
and MCL publicly launched. this as part of the organisation’s
business planning process.
Schools
‘Green’ events
• 78 of the city’s 165 schools have
been actively involved in the Eco- • The city to establish itself as an
Schools programme. internationally recognised
sustainable destination by 2020.

48. Sustainable Food
Food Futures partnership Forgotten Fields (GM)
• Growing Manchester, a Food • A collection of projects looking
Baseline Study and exemplar at the region's food heritage.
project at New Smithfield
Markets. GM Land Army
• A Low Carbon menu and audit • An army of volunteers to
has been undertaken by support local organic growers
Manchester Fayre. and farmers.
• Meat Free Mondays and a Manchester Veg People (GM)
further 20% reduction in Meat
and Dairy in Primary Schools. • A new collective of local organic
farmers & growers.

49. Adaptation

51. But...

53. The Plan Updated

54. Headline aims
Save more than 30,000 tonnes Increase knowledge, research
of CO2 emissions from and delivery of renewable
domestic properties by 2015 energy technologies;
Double that target for the Understanding and planning
period 2015 to 2017. of the city’s energy needs and
opportunities; and
Collaboration between building
owners, occupants and energy Application of digital
services companies to reduce technologies for energy
emissions from community, management.
public and community
buildings by 5% per year.

55. Headline aims
To continue the improvement Ensure the city’s green and
of sustainable public transport blue infrastructure is providing
services within and to and from optimal benefits to the city in
the city, and to create a terms of quality of life, climate
platform for substantial change adaptation, and wider
increases in journeys on foot, social, economic and
by bike and by electric vehicle environmental benefits.
in the period 2016 to 2020.
To increase the number of
organisations who are actively
engaged in sustainable
consumption and production
activity.

56. THE BIGGEST
CHALLENGES?

60. 2013: State of the City

61. Workshop One.

62. Workshop format
Buildings Sustainable Consumption
and Production
Energy
Culture
Transport
Green and Blue

63. Workshop format
1. Introduction •What are group •What barriers
members need to be
2. Practitioner currently doing overcome to
Input in this area? achieve this?
3. Working •What do they •A consideration
together feel inspired to of the resources
do in addition? available.

64. Break.

66. Mark Knowles
Head of Low Carbon at
Liverpool City Region
Local Economic Partnership

67. A Liverpool City Region
Perspective
Mark Knowles
Head of Low Carbon Economy

68. Thank you Manchester
from the Liverpool City Region…

69. From the streets of
Manchester…..
….Via Runcorn
To the streets of
Liverpool…..

70. LCR Low Carbon:
Same but different…..
Implementing national policies
Exploiting our advantages
oMarine Energy
oH2Hub
oSEAP
oProject Viridis
oPortCentric logistics
oIFB:14

71. Visitor Economy Knowledge
Economy
100,000+
jobs
Low Carbon Economy SuperPort

72. £110 billion of
investment
expected in UK
waters by 2020

74. Offshore Wind
Opportunity:
For the LCR to act as the principal West
Coast offshore wind manufacturing,
installation, operating and maintenance
centre serving the £18bn investment in
the Irish Sea and wider UK and global
offshore opportunities.
Hundreds of jobs already created by
Cammell Laird, RWE, DONG, Iberdrola
and ABB in installing and servicing
current offshore wind farms

77. Tidal and Wave Energy
Opportunities:
Power from the Mersey – The UK’s
most advanced Tidal Energy Scheme -
700MW potential.
UK Western Approaches – Most of
Europe’s best wave energy locations
with LCR universities and Cammell Laird
already engaged
Future opportunities for research,
investment, manufacture, installation
and maintenance

78. Hydrogen Network
Opportunities:
Work underway to create one of Europe’s
largest integrated H2 clusters focused on
fuel cell vehicles and static power.
Opportunity for the LCR to take a leading
global position in the development of
sustainable H2 production and
applications.
Development underway for a hydrogen
supply network centred on Ineos Chlor in
Runcorn including filling stations and H2
wells at The Heath and SciTech Daresbury

79. Sustainable Energy
Opportunity:
Sustainable Energy Action Plan has
identified over £500m of decentralised
energy projects including heat networks
across the City Region.
Delivery of sustainable energy alongside
£1bn investment by Scottish Power in the
City Region’s energy infrastructure over
the next 10 years will create a more
robust energy system and several
thousand jobs in construction operation
and maintenance.

80. Project Viridis
Opportunity:
Retrofitting - Roll-out of energy
efficiency measures in existing properties
stimulated by Green Deal and Energy
Company Obligation (ECO) incentives –
including heating systems, solid wall
insulation, double glazing
Microgeneration - photo voltaic and
other renewable energy technologies to
residential and commercial buildings
using UK Government incentives
Opportunities for renewable technology
manufacturers, suppliers and installers

85. Melanie Taylor
Green Economy Lead
Leeds City Region

86. Melanie Taylor
Green Economy Lead
Leeds City Region Partnership
melanie.taylor@leeds.gov.uk

87. Leeds City
Region –
the place

88. An energy
An energy
intensive
intensive
economy…
economy…

89. Reduce
emissions
40% by
2020
Leeds City Region - a world class
low carbon economy

90. A new kind of leadership: LEPs
“Urgent action is needed to rebuild local economies so that
economic opportunities spread across the country.
The solution needs to be local - we know that when councils
and local business work hand in hand they can drive economic
growth together and places can be transformed.
By giving up central control we
will put democratic
accountability back into the
local economy making it
responsive to the needs of
local business and local people.”

91. A new kind of leadership: LEPs

92. A new kind of leadership: LEPs
• Low Carbon
Infrastructure
• Supporting
through the
transition
• Growing the
sector

93. A new opportunity for investment

94. Our Opportunities…

95. Our opportunities…

96. Our opportunities…

97. Our opportunities…

98. So, what do we want?...
• Fuel poverty eradicated?
• A resilient energy infrastructure for the
future?
• A zero carbon energy infrastructure?
• A circular energy infrastructure?
• A decentralised energy infrastructure?
• Growth of a revolving income?

99. A new kind of leadership: LEPs
• Low Carbon
Infrastructure
• Supporting
through the
transition
• Growing the
sector

100. Supporting business…

101. Leading the Green Deal

102. Consistent offer on commercial

103. It’s not just about mitigating….

104. Melanie Taylor
Green Economy Lead
Leeds City Region Partnership
melanie.taylor@leeds.gov.uk

105. Workshop Two.

106. Workshop format
Buildings Sustainable Consumption
and Production
Energy
Culture
Transport
Green and Blue

107. Workshop format
1. Introduction •What are group •What barriers
members need to be
2. Practitioner currently doing overcome to
Input in this area? achieve this?
3. Working •What do they •A consideration
together feel inspired to of the resources
do in addition? available.

108. Wrap.

109. Thank you