Manchester Climate Change Partnership was established in 2018 and brings together organisations from across the city’s public, private, community, faith, health, culture, and academic sectors that share the common goal of helping Manchester to limit its greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to a changing climate.

Its aim is to work with the Manchester Climate Change Agency, Manchester communities and other relevant partners to ensure the city develops and successfully implements a climate change strategy aligned with the latest science and built on the views of city stakeholders.

 

The Partnership's Terms of Reference are available here.

 

Partnership members represent key organisations and sectors from across the city:

 

Chair: Mike Wilton, Director and Manchester Office Leader, Arup (the recruitment pack is available here, for information) 

 

Arup: Mike Wilton, Director and Manchester Office Leader

 

Bruntwood: Chris Oglesby, Chief Executive

 

Carbon Literacy Trust: Dave Coleman, Co-founder and Managing Director, The Carbon Literacy Project

 

Deloitte: Hannah Smith-Pickuk, North West, Clients and Industries Lead and Michael Percival, Assistant Director

 

Electricity North West: Jonny Sadler, Strategic Decarbonisation Manager 

 

Manchester Airport Group: Neil Robinson, Corporate Social Responsibility and Future Airspace Director

 

Manchester Arts Sustainability Team (Arts and Culture sector): Simon Curtis, Chair of MAST 

 

Manchester City Council:  Councillor Tracey Rawlins, Executive Member for Environment, Planning and Transport and Carol Culley, Deputy Chief Executive and City Treasurer 

 

Manchester City Football Club: Pete Bradshaw, Head of Sustainability 

 

Manchester Climate Change Youth Board

 

Manchester Health and Wellbeing Board: Dr. Murugesan Raja 

 

Manchester Housing Providers Partnership: Matt Roberts, Chair of MHPP Zero Carbon Group and Strategic Director Property and Development, Southway Housing

 

Manchester Metropolitan University: Prof. Liz Price, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor Sustainability

 

Media: Steve Connor, Chief Executive, Creative Concern

 

Our Faith Our Planet (faith sector): Dean Rogers Govender, Chair of OFOP and Dean at Manchester Cathedral

 

THG: Philippa Desiderio, Managing Director, Environmental Markets

 

University of Manchester: Prof. Nalin Thakkar, Vice President for Social Responsibility

 

Wates Group: David Saville, Business Unit Director

 

 Previous MACF Steering Group members

- Dr Ali Abbas, Manchester Friends of the Earth, Greater Manchester Community Renewables, Carbon Literacy Trust

- Dr Jeremy Carter, Research Fellow at University of Manchester

 

Diversity and Inclusion Sub-group:

- Nidhi Minocha

- Sukhbir Singh

(+ Dean Rogers Govender)

 

Public Appointees

- Dominic Goggins, Political and Communications Strategy Consultant 

 

For further information about the work of the Partnership visit our annual reports page and the summary of Partnership members' action plans, published in February 2020.

 

 The Partnership was established in February 2018 and builds on the work of the MACF Steering Group, which was in place from 2010 - 2017.