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ACTIONS FOR "COMMUNITIES"

Communities have the ability to join together and ensure even the smallest changes make a real difference. Community projects, activities and programmes can influence culture and lifestyle change efficiently and effectively. Find out all about these actions below.

• Continue to work with the Waste & Resources Action Plan (WRAP) and support the Recycle Now and Love Food Hate Waste campaigns.
• Reinforce the role of community buildings by making them low carbon neighbourhood hubs promoting the benefits of 'low carbon' lifestyles and technologies.
• Support the growth of repairs and servicing businesses.
• Continue to implement community work through the CO₂mmunity Challenge and roll out across the whole of Manchester.
• Provide advice and support to universities, landlords and student groups to increase energy efficiency in student accommodation.
• Research and implement a loyalty card scheme to encourage people to support local sustainable business.
• Create a city-wide programme of neighbourhood low-carbon zones.
• Encourage and support community groups to implement their own plans for reducing energy use towards zero/low-carbon communities, including clear and simple advice on project development, obtaining funding, and a programme of incentives
• 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
• Run a pilot programme of tradeable personal carbon quotas to help encourage changes in lifestyle and behaviour.
• Launch a 'Two-Degree Challenge' to encourage residents to turn thermostats up or down depending on the season.
• Use the media to provide information to enable people to make sustainable decisions regarding the consumption of goods and services.
• 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.
• Promote learning, teaching, evidence and inspiration of 2050 standards of low-carbon generation and distribution.
• Increase tree coverage in Manchester, including street trees and woodland cover.
• 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.
• Work towards the completion and implementation of management plans for Council-owned woodland, parks and river valleys.
• There will be adult bicycle training to give people the confidence to travel by bicycle.
• Increase installation of green roofs within the city, both on new developments and retrofitted to existing buildings.
• 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.
• Seek to retain and improve existing open spaces, sport and recreation facilities.
• Create a baseline of sustainable food consumption and production and increase year on year to 2020 and beyond.
• Provide a network of diverse, multi-functional open spaces (Research and identify opportunities to create new wildlife corridors and biodiversity areas).
• Develop the infrastructure to enable an increase in local food production, both commercially and within the community.
• Maximise the contribution of gardens and individual/household space to green infrastructure, including advice and training on sustainable garden management.
• Support and extend existing community growing projects.
• Create a framework of public support, awareness, education and engagement with the residents of Manchester around the need for and benefits of GI.
• 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.
• Everyone in Manchester to have climate change training.
• Maximise the contribution of gardens and individual/household space to green infrastructure, including advice and training on domestic composting.
• Conduct climate change awareness and engagement campaigns and ensure that they are relevant to local communities and neighbourhoods.
• Encourage interim use of development sites for local food production.
• 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.
• Create and support social enterprises to develop the growth of urban agriculture and market gardening.
• Increase education, skills and awareness among residents about sustainable food through local activity, campaigns and national programmes.
• Encourage schools to promote sustainability with parents and communities