Projects
Projects
Learn about our projects or if you would like to know more about a specific sector please follow the links below:
Cross sector - Green jobs
As part of the West Midlands Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme, Sustainability West Midlands is providing support to local authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships to identify the opportunities for green jobs in the areas and support local green business clubs to help businesses realise these opportunities.
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Cross sector - Health programme
To develop a programme with the health sector around improving the use of public health evidence to strengthen sustainable development decision making.
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Cross sector - Regional Awards Service
The aim is to identify and write up any organisations in the region that have won a regional or national sustainable development award and promote the good practice.
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Cross sector - Roadmap for a sustainable region in 2020
This project compares current regional sustainable development priorities with the aims set out in Vision 2020, and identifies the gaps, partners and steps required to get to a more environmentally sustainable and socially just region.
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Cross sector - Sustainable Housing Action Programme (SHAP)
SHAP has been set up to help make new and existing housing low carbon by 2016 as set out in the Regional Housing Strategy. SHAP provides examples of best practice in sustainable housing.
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Cross sector - West Midlands climate adaptation partnership
This project focuses on the need to ensure that risks and opportunities of adapting to the inevitable changes in weather are built into long term West Midlands policy and investments.
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Public sector - Carbon Management
As part of the West Midlands Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme, the Carbon Trust ran a Collaborative Implementation Support programme for local authorities wishing to implement carbon reduction projects in order to reduce carbon emissions and energy costs. The Carbon Trust has also provided Carbon Management Lite to five Tier 2 West Midlands Local Authorities.
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Public sector - Carbon Trust "Carbon Management Lite"
As part of the West Midlands Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme, the West Midlands Carbon Management Lite programme is a 4-month programme to support district and borough councils in the West Midlands to develop robust plans for tackling carbon emissions and reducing energy costs.
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Public sector - Energy Programme
Establish good practice for local authorities creating plans and delivery mechanisms to create the certainty for investment in decentralised energy solutions.
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Public sector - Funding opportunities
As part of the West Midlands Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme, Sustainability West Midlands worked with the Energy Saving Trust and other partners to provide capacity building events and online guidance for financial decision makers, lawyers and other officers to improve awareness of the energy and cost-saving, income generation and other benefits of installing energy efficiency and renewable energy measures in existing buildings and the range of funding opportunities and providers for these projects.
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Public sector - Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme
To support local authorities across the West Midlands in the transition to a low carbon economy and implementing current and forthcoming government policies on climate change and energy.
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Public sector - Local Strategic Partnerships
This aims to support Local Strategic Partnerships integrated Sustainable Development within their plans and projects.
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Public sector - Low Carbon Procurement
As part of the West Midlands Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme, Sustainability West Midlands will be sharing good practice on 'carbon clauses' for procurement categories to save long term costs and stimulate innovation. Guidance documents for this strand are now available to download from this project page.
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Public sector - Low Carbon Schools
As part of the West Midlands Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme, some funding has been used to secure additional capacity for West Midlands authorities to participate in the Carbon Trust's 2011/12 Schools Programme.
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Public sector - Planning for the Low Carbon Economy - Training for Officers and Members
As part of the West Midlands Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme, Sustainability West Midlands has provided capacity building to help planning and development management officers and committee members understand renewable and energy efficient technologies, hold informed negotiations with developers, consult effectively with communities and make best determination of planning applications.
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Public sector - Reduced energy consumption: funds for energy audits and hardware investment
£450,000 of Climate Change Skills Fund is being specifically targeted at reducing energy consumption across local authority estates and is being co-ordinated by West Midlands Property Alliance. These funds are available to help local authorities undertake energy audits, manage the implementation of recommendations and make low level hardware investment.
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Public sector - Support for regional and sub-regional projects
To provide policy and network support to a range of other partners' projects that deliver a sustainable region.
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Public sector - Sustainability Appraisal and Monitoring tools
This project aims to provide and apply tools for appraisal and monitoring to help regional policy deliver a more sustainable West Midlands region.
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Public sector - Sustainable Procurement Programme
To use public sector sustainable procurement to drive innovation around low carbon goods and services.
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Public sector - West Midlands Sustainable Development Officers Network
Sustainability West Midlands is supporting the West Midlands Sustainable Development Officers Network (WMSDON) as part of the Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme.
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Voluntary sector - Community Strand of the West Midlands Low Carbon Economy Programme
As part of the West Midlands Local Authority Low Carbon Economy Programme, this project has provided direct advice, guidance and support to a selection of community-owned renewable energy projects and capacity building for a network of 'mentors' to support other similar projects and groups in future. This programme of bespoke support has been managed by Marches Energy Agency in partnership with Localise West Midlands.
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Voluntary sector - Low Carbon Communities Network
The aim is to promote good practice in low carbon communities within the region and attract more support.
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Voluntary sector - SWM Voluntary Sector and Communities Leadership Group
The key aim for the group is for it to become the recognised place to come for strategic green issues leading to increased activity with and through voluntary sector and community organisations.
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