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ACTIONS FOR "ORGANISATIONS"

Organisations, both large and small, will see a difference in how they operate in the future. Leading by example, organisations have the ability to influence behaviour within their own workforce and outside so their capacity to embrace sustainability will be crucial for a low carbon economy. Find out all about these actions below.

• 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.
• Increase installation of green roofs within the city, both on new developments and retrofitted to existing buildings.
• Establish a business emissions reduction strategy for the city
• Launch a 'Two Degree Challenge' for building owners to turn thermostats up/down depending on the season.
• Promote driver awareness and training, including vehicles advice, fuel economy training, car sharing and safety promotion for cyclists and pedestrians
• 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.
• Develop networks for sectors and companies to act together on sustainability and develop realistic and effective standards
• Switching off at night to achieve zero energy use in empty 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.
• Encourage zero net external water requirements of external landscapes in new developments.
• Promote low-carbon business practices through existing partnerships and alliances, and dialogue between businesses, property owners and occupiers
• Exemplar buildings will be rewarded with Green Plaques to show their commitment to carbon reduction.
• Develop the infrastructure to enable an increase in local food production, both commercially and within the community.
• Create a framework of public support, awareness, education and engagement with the residents of Manchester around the need for and benefits of GI.
• Make progress on CO₂ reductions visible through public local indicators, barometers and displays.
• Encourage and support the uptake and development of easy-to-use Building Management Systems
• Support and extend existing community growing projects.
• Conduct climate change awareness and engagement campaigns and ensure that they are relevant to local communities and neighbourhoods.
• Establish MCC as one of the leading exemplar organisations in progressing the actions in this plan by drawing up, developing and monitoring a delivery plan which sets out the MCC's role in delivery.
• Develop and implement best practice in low-carbon building design.
• Increase education, skills and awareness among residents about sustainable food through local activity, campaigns and national programmes.
• 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 and promote a range of high-profile building exemplars at 2050 sustainable standards in all categories (domestic, public and commercial) and ages.
• Help selected large organisations to achieve zero waste to landfill from their buildings by 2020.
• Reinforce the role of community buildings by making them low carbon neighbourhood hubs promoting the benefits of 'low carbon' lifestyles and technologies.
• 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.
• Continue to work with the Waste & Resources Action Plan (WRAP) and support the Recycle Now and Love Food Hate Waste campaigns.
• Continue to implement community work through the CO₂mmunity Challenge and roll out across the whole of Manchester.
• 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.
• Work with GMWDA to establish further stronger landfill and recycling targets for 2020 and beyond
• Create a city-wide programme of neighbourhood low-carbon zones.
• Install large-scale energy generation and distribution systems to serve large areas of the 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. 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
• 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 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 with partners in the Northwest to encourage sustainable procurement policies and procedures.
• Share and promote common 'carbon accounting' data throughout the city.
• Purchase energy from 100% certified green energy supplies and encourage our suppliers and contractors to do the same.
• Investigate the potential to develop a city-wide approach to sustainable procurement
• Businesses will be signed up to the highest Carbon Trust standards
• Employers and event organisers will be helping us to plan low carbon and low congestion journeys.
• Engage with businesses to move towards closed loop production
• Businesses will be signed up to the Buy Recycled Code
• Develop services for individual smart travel planning, including interactive journey-planning information systems, supporting active travel, and make these available direct to individuals and through organisations.
• Use the media to provide information to enable people to make sustainable decisions regarding the consumption of goods and services.
• Businesses will be signed up to the Environmental Business Pledge
• Establish 'Green Leases' as an incentive to retrofit and share the benefits between landlords and tenants
• 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 tree coverage in Manchester, including street trees and woodland cover.
• 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.
• Develop a long term programme for retrofitting public and commercial buildings across the city.
• Improve the performance of vehicle fleets, supporting cleaner-fuelled vehicles, including service points and incentives.
• Remediate derelict, underused and neglected land and brownfield spaces into maintained green space.
• Establish and implement best measures for aggregated purchasing of energy efficient equipment to make it widely available and encourage energy efficient use.
• 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.
• Research and develop sustainable waste transport options, including use of the region's waterways where appropriate.