Manchester City Region

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Manchester City Region

• Steve Turner
• Head of Carbon Economy, Manchester Enterprises

Darren Pegram Corporate Policy Manager, Stockport
Council
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• Mini Stern
• Climate Change Agency

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• Mini-Stern Review

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• Assessing potential economic implications of
  climate change legislation, policy and regulation
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• Manchester, highlighting potential policy
  implications and interventions.

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• Risk
• That business does not have the capacity to
  respond through a lack of awareness and skills
  shortage. Combined with a poor critical energy
  infrastructure this could lead to market
  displacement.

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• Opportunities
• A significant opportunity exists for business to
  become more efficient cutting costs whilst
  becoming first movers expanding into new markets.
  Combined with a package of business support
  measures Manchester could become the UK node for
  sector activity.

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• Interventions 1
• Forging links with international exemplar regions
  and championing the production and use of clean
  energy coupled with a vision to become the UK
  node for environmental sustainability will secure
  first mover advantage for Manchester in the UK

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• Interventions 2
• Provide support for specific sectors through
  bespoke strategies along with the development of
  critical transport and energy infrastructure. At
  the same time maximising links to academia and
  further education to increase the supply of
  skills.

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• Climate Change Agency

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• To build and secure capacity for the private and
  public sectors to meet city region climate change
  targets.

Climate Change Agency Key city regional body
leading a strategic approach to delivering a low
carbon economy through iconic initiatives on a
scale not seen before in the UK. To rival and
better the aspirations of any other world city.
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• To build and secure capacity for the private and
  public sectors to meet city region climate change
  targets.

Climate Change Agency A governance structure
that attracts UK and international expertise
delivering both major infrastructure and
behavioural change initiatives across the city
region.
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Inter-authority co-operation to accelerate
city-wide carbon reduction in the Manchester
city region
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Overview

• Context AGMA.
• Inter-authority co-operation on climate change in
  Greater Manchester.
• Final thoughts.

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AGMA

• AGMA (the Association of Greater Manchester
  Authorities) is a partnership between the ten
  local authorities within the Greater Manchester
  area.
• It was formed after the abolition of the Greater
  Manchester Council in 1986. AGMA was formed to
  undertake functions that needed to be
  co-ordinated at a metropolitan level. The ten
  authorities co-operate where there is the
  possibility of improving service delivery by
  working together.

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AGMA

• Work is underway to strengthen city region
  governance. A new structure for AGMA has been
  devised to further encourage collaboration
• A high level Executive Board linked to an
  advisory Business Leadership Council.
• Strategic Commissions with responsibility for
  delivering specific functions, within the
  following priority areas
• Economic Development
• Transport
• Housing and Planning
• Health Inequalities
• Public Protection
• ENVIRONMENT
• Capacity Building and Collaborative Working

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AGMA Environment Commission

• One of the new Strategic Commissions.
• Stockport Council has the political lead within
  AGMA.
• Joint CE sponsors are from Stockport and Oldham.
• The Development Team (ECDT) lead by Manchester.

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Inter-authority co-operation

• Manchester is my Planet (MIMP).
• Joint funding bids.
• Multi-Area Agreement (MAA).
• Energy Saving Trust Advice Centre (ESTAC).
• Low Carbon Cities Programme (LCCP).

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Manchester is my Planet (MIMP)

• The MIMP programme involves a range of
  initiatives designed to help the city region make
  a shift towards a low carbon future.
• Following completion of the green energy
  revolution feasibility study at the end of 2005
  MIMP has engaged with public and private sector
  partners to raise awareness of the causes of
  climate change and the actions needed to tackle
  it.
• In the absence of a Climate Change Agency, MIMP
  has been responsible for facilitating and
  co-ordinating a wide range of sustainable energy
  projects and feasibility studies across GM.
• Intention to integrate the MIMP initiative within
  the climate change agency model.

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MIMP - Examples

• Nearly 20,000 climate change pledges.
• Switched on to climate change.
• Circle of wind.
• Green badge parking scheme.
• Low energy business park.
• ESCO study.
• Personal carbon trading.
• Greening the town halls.

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Joint funding bids

• Partnership Energy Planning as a Tool for
  Realising European Sustainable Energy Communities
  (PEPESEC).
• Jointly submitted by Manchester, Oldham and
  Manchester Knowledge Capital on behalf of AGMA.

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PEPESECPartnership Energy Planning as a Tool
for Realising European Sustainable Energy
Communities

• Working with Local Authorities pilot best
  practice in energy planning, with support from
  the Intelligent Energy for Europe programme.
• How energy is supplied, distributed and used
  within a Local Authority.
• Covers all types of energy needs transport,
  heating, electricity (domestic industrial).
• Outlines current energy flow rate (production ?
  consumption), resources used to generate and
  transport energy.
• Impact on the environment.
• Aims
• To raise public awareness to issues regarding
  environmental impact and dependence on fossil
  fuels.
• Promote the best technologies, best practice,
  and the achievement of maximum performance of
  existing buildings and future developments.
• Actively involve a wider-range of actors
  citizens, professional operators, suppliers,
  associations, public bodies.

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Multi-Area Agreement (MAA)

• Addressing the challenge of climate change to be
  threaded through the proposals set out in the
  Multi Area Agreement for Greater Manchester,
  initially submitted in December 2007.
• Highlighted in particular within those proposals
  related to the delivery of sustainable economic
  growth, addressing housing need, spatial planning
  and delivering critical infrastructure.
• Climate Change Agency is part of the core offer
  to Government.
• These proposals are being developed within GM and
  through further discussion with Government.

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Energy Saving Trust Advice Centre (ESTAC)

• GM ESTAC to operate a service from May 2008,
  offering advice and support to residents in
  delivering energy demand and carbon emissions
  reduction from energy use and transport across
  the 10 authority areas.
• A working group consisting of sustainability and
  housing representatives from the existing GM
  Energy Efficiency Advice Centre Manchester North
  and South local authorities, MCC, MIMP, GMPTE and
  GMWDA is working with the Development Team to
  ensure a collaborative approach.

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Low Carbon Cities Programme (LCCP)

• Project to deliver
• Baselining and benchmarking.
• Identification of strategic priorities and
  specific action planning.
• Design of a governance structure for climate
  change, identifying capacity and funding needs
  and integrating them into strategic
  decision-making structures and services.
• Identification of key stakeholders and formation
  of an effective forum and network of stakeholders
  and contributors.
• GM LCCP stakeholder event in February 2008.

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Final thoughts

• Effective capacity is not yet in place, so joint
  working and the establishment of shared resources
  is the most cost-effective and productive way of
  delivering a step change.
• Collaboration will be needed with all new
  Commissions on issues such as the impact of
  climate change on the economy, spatial
  development and public health, and the role of
  transport in reducing carbon emissions.