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ACTIONS FOR "EDUCATION"

It is only through awareness and understanding of the causes and implications of climate change can we develop a low carbon culture. In the plan there are specific actions related to education - "carbon literacy" and "carbon accounting" programmes will feature in our daily lives and low carbon living will be second nature. Find out all about these actions below.

• Establish and implement best measures for aggregated purchasing of energy efficient equipment to make it widely available and encourage energy efficient use.
• Develop the city region as a centre of excellence for low carbon construction skills Provide a centre of excellence for green collar skills and training for the construction industry.
• 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.
• Support and extend existing community growing projects.
• Review and improve methods of green space master planning in development, including setting standards for the quality, accessibility and quantity of open space.
• Everyone in Manchester to have climate change training.
• Develop networks for sectors and companies to act together on sustainability and develop realistic and effective standards
• Provide advice and support to universities, landlords and student groups to increase energy efficiency in student accommodation.
• Make smart metering widely available through lending programmes at local centres, such as libraries.
• 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.
• Identify best practice in managing GI in response to climate change - using international research as well as local planning and ecology experts.
• Conduct climate change awareness and engagement campaigns and ensure that they are relevant to local communities and neighbourhoods.
• Make progress on CO₂ reductions visible through public local indicators, barometers and displays.
• 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.
• Maximise the contribution of gardens and individual/household space to green infrastructure, including advice and training on domestic composting.
• Support the Eco Cities project and other research into GI and spatial planning.
• 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.
• 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.
• Encourage interim use of development sites for local food production.
• Research and identify species and habitats that are suited to predicted future climates, including identification of species/habitats that are likely to decline.
• Influence, promote and support the embedding of environmental considerations in all areas of the education system.
• 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.
• Increase education, skills and awareness among residents about sustainable food through local activity, campaigns and national programmes.
• Co-ordinate and undertake research to develop an understanding of water flows across the city, including rivers and localised flooding caused by issues such as heavy rainfall.
• Encourage schools to promote sustainability with parents and communities
• Switching off at night to achieve zero energy use in empty buildings.
• Invest in interchange and storage facilities at public transport and cycling destinations.
• Develop and implement a food sustainability quality mark for the catering and restaurant industry, carbon reduction as key driver.
• Increase tree coverage in Manchester, including street trees and woodland cover.
• Organise an annual climate change conference for young people so they can discuss future scenarios.
• Exemplar buildings will be rewarded with Green Plaques to show their commitment to carbon reduction.
• Invest in more school buses.
• Help selected large organisations to achieve zero waste to landfill from their buildings by 2020.
• Remediate derelict, underused and neglected land and brownfield spaces into maintained green space.
• Reinforce the role of community buildings by making them low carbon neighbourhood hubs promoting the benefits of 'low carbon' lifestyles and technologies.
• Encourage and support the uptake and development of easy-to-use Building Management Systems
• Improve the performance of vehicle fleets, supporting cleaner-fuelled vehicles, including service points and incentives.
• 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.
• Increase installation of green roofs within the city, both on new developments and retrofitted to existing buildings.
• Continue to implement community work through the CO₂mmunity Challenge and roll out across the whole of Manchester.
• Create a city-wide programme of neighbourhood low-carbon zones.
• Develop and implement best practice in low-carbon building design.
• Contribute to research into low emission and alternative fuels.
• Continue to work with the Waste & Resources Action Plan (WRAP) and support the Recycle Now and Love Food Hate Waste campaigns.
• Seek to retain and improve existing open spaces, sport and recreation facilities.
• Develop digital connectivity in Manchester, maximising the sharing of ideas, information and develop the use of digital technology.
• Develop and promote a range of high-profile building exemplars at 2050 sustainable standards in all categories (domestic, public and commercial) and ages.
• Identify options to support low emission/alternative fuels, such as locally produced biofuels.
• Support the growth of repairs and servicing businesses.
• Provide a network of diverse, multi-functional open spaces (Research and identify opportunities to create new wildlife corridors and biodiversity areas).
• 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.
• A Manchester Design Prize will encourage innovation.
• Invest in the development of a new generation of sustainable transport options for 2020 and beyond.
• 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
• Identify and implement best practice in soil management.
• Share and promote common 'carbon accounting' data throughout the city.
• 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.
• Research and develop sustainable freight transport options, including use of the region's waterways where appropriate.
• Work with partners in the Northwest to encourage sustainable procurement policies and procedures.
• Maximise the contribution of gardens and individual/household space to green infrastructure, including advice and training on sustainable garden management.
• Commitment to create a Total Carbon Footprint framework by 2013.
• Undertake a heat mapping exercise to understand the potential to use waste heat within the city
• Research and develop sustainable waste transport options, including use of the region's waterways where appropriate.
• Investigate the potential to develop a city-wide approach to sustainable procurement
• Identify and implement best practice in waterways management to improve water quality and biodiversity. Maximise the contribution of water bodies to reduce flood risk and provide irrigation.
• Incorporate appropriate measures and targets for the city's impact in aviation and shipping in the new total carbon footprint approach.
• Promote learning, teaching, evidence and inspiration of 2050 standards of low-carbon generation and distribution.
• 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 partners to assist in the creation of a toolkit to support schools in achieving sustainable procurement.
• Support innovative use of water for cooling, such as deculverting waterways and using aquifers or surface water for cooling.
• Businesses will be signed up to the highest Carbon Trust standards
• Develop a long term programme for retrofitting public and commercial buildings across the city.
• Continue to explore the use of a mix of renewable energy sources, including biomass, waste, geothermal, wind and solar power.
• Create a baseline of sustainable food consumption and production and increase year on year to 2020 and beyond.
• Support the creation of a national scheme to enable consumers to know the carbon footprint of products.
• Encourage zero net external water requirements of external landscapes in new developments.
• Businesses will be signed up to the Buy Recycled Code
• Become the UK's Low Carbon Economic Area for the Built Environment.
• Conduct a research project to establish the energy use of different sectors
• Develop the infrastructure to enable an increase in local food production, both commercially and within the community.
• Use the media to provide information to enable people to make sustainable decisions regarding the consumption of goods and services.
• Create a framework of public support, awareness, education and engagement with the residents of Manchester around the need for and benefits of GI.