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ACTIONS FOR "BUSINESS"

Good business is firmly becoming focused on responsible business. New legislation will shift the practice of employers and building owners, and those companies not committed to sustainability and environmental concerns will struggle, losing out to more resource efficient competitors. Find out all about these actions below.

• Ensure all new homes funded by Government or built by RSLs are in compliance with the escalating Code for Sustainable Homes requirements.
• Research and develop sustainable waste transport options, including use of the region's waterways where appropriate.
• Support the growth of repairs and servicing businesses.
• Conduct climate change awareness and engagement campaigns and ensure that they are relevant to local communities and neighbourhoods.
• Establish a business emissions reduction strategy for the city
• Develop and promote a range of high-profile building exemplars at 2050 sustainable standards in all categories (domestic, public and commercial) and ages.
• Promote active travel, through campaigns linked to key travel destinations Develop mechanisms to encourage more people to cycle and walk as part of their own travel plan.
• Work with GMWDA to establish further stronger landfill and recycling targets for 2020 and beyond
• Develop programmes of 'carbon literacy' education and training in schools, colleges and universities; at all levels in public, private and third sector organisations; and make them available in community groups, neighbourhoods and households.
• Develop networks for sectors and companies to act together on sustainability and develop realistic and effective standards
• A Manchester Design Prize will encourage innovation.
• Promote driver awareness and training, including vehicles advice, fuel economy training, car sharing and safety promotion for cyclists and pedestrians
• Research and implement a loyalty card scheme to encourage people to support local sustainable business.
• Reinforce the role of community buildings by making them low carbon neighbourhood hubs promoting the benefits of 'low carbon' lifestyles and technologies.
• Promote low-carbon business practices through existing partnerships and alliances, and dialogue between businesses, property owners and occupiers
• Produce a Manchester Energy Plan that provides the framework for establishing a city-wide decarbonised energy generation and distribution system and local energy plans supported by the LDF and Strategic Regeneration Frameworks. Establish the partnerships and investments needed to develop and deliver the Energy Plan and the structures needed to integrate projects sharing heat, power and 'smart grid' information, and to manage them.
• Support the development of a Northwest food plan ensuring it meets the needs of Manchester consumers and businesses, increases the capacity of regional growers and improves the supply chain to enable residents to buy more sustainable food.
• Promote sustainable tourism through the Green Event Guide and a sustainable event management system such as BS 8901. Make the reduction of CO2 a key objective for all major events in the city, underpinning the reputation of Manchester as a low-carbon city. Promote sustainable tourism through the Green Event Guide and a sustainable event management system such as BS 8901. Make the reduction of CO₂ a key objective for all major events in the city, underpinning the reputation of Manchester as a low-carbon city
• Continue to implement community work through the CO₂mmunity Challenge and roll out across the whole of Manchester.
• Support SMEs in seizing the low-carbon business opportunities
• Save over 350,000 tonnes of CO₂ a year by 2020 through a major programme of retrofitting domestic buildings with energy efficiency and home energy generation measures. Develop and implement best practice in retrofit.
• Work with partners at the city, city-regional and national level to improve existing infrastructure, existing regulatory frameworks, and policy to help deliver a decarbonised generation and distribution system.
• Create a baseline of sustainable food consumption and production and increase year on year to 2020 and beyond.
• Work with partners in the Northwest to encourage sustainable procurement policies and procedures.
• Create a city-wide programme of neighbourhood low-carbon zones.
• Make progress on CO₂ reductions visible through public local indicators, barometers and displays.
• Implement a 'Better than Decent' programme with the city's social landlords to take their stock beyond 'Decent Homes' retrofit.
• Install large-scale energy generation and distribution systems to serve large areas of the city
• Develop the infrastructure to enable an increase in local food production, both commercially and within the community.
• Investigate the potential to develop a city-wide approach to sustainable procurement
• It will be routine in organisations for environmental performance to be monitored, reported and managed: the need and opportunity to reduce CO₂ emissions will be a standard consideration in all contracts, transactions and projects.
• Establish 'Green Leases' as an incentive to retrofit and share the benefits between landlords and tenants
• Continue to explore the use of a mix of renewable energy sources, including biomass, waste, geothermal, wind and solar power.
• Support and extend existing community growing projects.
• Engage with businesses to move towards closed loop production
• Share and promote common 'carbon accounting' data throughout the city.
• Investigate the development of green clauses in the Manchester Landlords' Accreditation Scheme.
• Establish a range of community-based micro-generation projects where energy can be used by local users and/or fed back into national and local grids.
• Maximise the contribution of gardens and individual/household space to green infrastructure, including advice and training on grow your own schemes. Encourage more people to grow food at home organically.
• Increase tree coverage in Manchester, including street trees and woodland cover.
• Commitment to create a Total Carbon Footprint framework by 2013.
• Develop a long term programme for retrofitting public and commercial buildings across the city.
• Installation of domestic smart meters.
• Maximise the contribution of gardens and individual/household space to green infrastructure, including advice and training on domestic composting.
• Remediate derelict, underused and neglected land and brownfield spaces into maintained green space.
• Incorporate appropriate measures and targets for the city's impact in aviation and shipping in the new total carbon footprint approach.
• Become the UK's Low Carbon Economic Area for the Built Environment.
• Roll-out a pilot Smart Energy Business District to test the application of smart meters to an area of the city dominated by SMEs, with the potential to expand it citywide.
• Encourage interim use of development sites for local food production.
• Increase installation of green roofs within the city, both on new developments and retrofitted to existing buildings.
• Businesses will be signed up to the highest Carbon Trust standards
• Launch a 'Two-Degree Challenge' to encourage residents to turn thermostats up or down depending on the season.
• Purchase energy from 100% certified green energy supplies and encourage our suppliers and contractors to do the same.
• Create and support social enterprises to develop the growth of urban agriculture and market gardening.
• Identify sustainable and innovative options to increase the coverage of public green infrastructure in the city, including supporting the Piccadilly and Oxford Road Corridor public realm developments.
• Businesses will be signed up to the Buy Recycled Code
• Encourage and support businesses to implement their own plans for reducing energy use towards zero/low carbon, including clear and simple advice on project development, obtaining funding, and a programme of incentives.
• Employers and event organisers will be helping us to plan low carbon and low congestion journeys.
• Develop and implement a food sustainability quality mark for the catering and restaurant industry, carbon reduction as key driver.
• Seek to retain and improve existing open spaces, sport and recreation facilities.
• Businesses will be signed up to the Environmental Business Pledge
• Launch a 'Two Degree Challenge' for building owners to turn thermostats up/down depending on the season.
• Organisations will prepare green transport plans and make sustainable transport choices more attractive for employees through better facilities, car share clubs, car pools, workplace cycle and running facilities, subsidised travel cards, advice, and flexible working. MCC to support.
• Help selected large organisations to achieve zero waste to landfill from their buildings by 2020.
• Maximise the contribution of gardens and individual/household space to green infrastructure, including advice and training on sustainable garden management.
• Encourage low carbon green business into the city Establish Manchester as a centre for 'low carbon businesses', creating opportunities in the green collar economy for businesses and individuals and anticipate and influence the market for 'low carbon technologies', stimulating innovation and investment.
• Switching off at night to achieve zero energy use in empty buildings.
• MCC will create a Business Travel Policy for all types of business and personal travel undertaken by its employees, including aviation
• Investigate the potential development of performance related incentives for businesses to divert commercial and industrial waste from landfills to alternative waste management processes, particularly re-use and recycling.
• Encourage zero net external water requirements of external landscapes in new developments.
• Investigate potential for reduced business rates to encourage low carbon businesses into city; or align business rates with energy efficiency.
• Exemplar buildings will be rewarded with Green Plaques to show their commitment to carbon reduction.
• Improve the performance of vehicle fleets, supporting cleaner-fuelled vehicles, including service points and incentives.
• Continue to work with the Waste & Resources Action Plan (WRAP) and support the Recycle Now and Love Food Hate Waste campaigns.
• Create a framework of public support, awareness, education and engagement with the residents of Manchester around the need for and benefits of GI.
• Establish community development interest initiatives and social enterprises to co-ordinate the take-up of low-energy appliances and low-carbon technologies for domestic and business use.
• Encourage and support the uptake and development of easy-to-use Building Management Systems
• Develop and implement best practice in low-carbon building design.
• Research and develop sustainable freight transport options, including use of the region's waterways where appropriate.
• Implement the Government's food packaging strategy for England.
• Everyone in Manchester to have climate change training.
• Establish and implement best measures for aggregated purchasing of energy efficient equipment to make it widely available and encourage energy efficient use.