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Have your say on Manchester’s climate plan

Following the international climate agreement in Paris last December, the Manchester Climate Change Agency is consulting on an update to the city’s climate change strategy.

Ahead of the CurveThe consultation closes on Sunday 16th October.  You can send in a consultation response by filling in your details below and clicking the “send your message” button.

This email action is now closed. The text is included here for the archive:

I welcome and support Manchester’s ambition to be a zero-carbon city by 2050, if not sooner.

However, some parts of the climate change strategy currently fail to meet this level of ambition.

In particular, I think the city should:

– Adopt 5-year carbon budgets in line with the latest science, and review the budgets in line with progress and future international agreements.

– Go beyond national building regulations and adopt a zero carbon standard for new buildings, as will come into force in London in October.

– Show commitment to going fossil free by demanding an immediate ban on unconventional gas extraction in Greater Manchester, and calling on all organisations with links to the city, including the Greater Manchester Pension Fund and the universities, to divest from fossil fuels by 2020.

– Recognise the carbon impact of Manchester Airport by agreeing to limit emissions from flights to and from the airport to 2005 levels, in line with the Committee on Climate Change’s recommendations for UK aviation

– Set targets to recycle at least 70% of the city’s waste by 2030, and to be zero waste by 2050, and call on Greater Manchester to adopt these targets.

– Commit to on-going funding of at least £20 per person per year for walking and cycling.

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