Projects
Projects
Low Carbon Economy - Business Futures Network
The Business Futures network sets out to improve the sharing of good practice and raising the profile of organisations in the West Midlands who are tackling the sustainability agenda.
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Low Carbon Economy - City Region Low Carbon Economy Leadership Programme
To maximise the economic opportunities from the low carbon economy for the City Region and wider region through research, events and projects to support Local Authority leaders create conditions for growth.
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Low Carbon Economy - 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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Low Carbon Economy - Green jobs and skills for the West Midlands
This project is focusing on estimating how much of the predicted £46 billion green jobs in the UK by 2015 will be in the West Midlands and what type of jobs and skills we should focus on.
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Low Carbon Economy - 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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Low Carbon Economy - Sustainable Procurement Programme
To use public sector sustainable procurement to drive innovation around low carbon goods and services.
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Regional Policy - Climate adaptation
This project focused on the need to ensure that risks and opportunities of adapting to the inevitable changes in weather are built into long term regional policy and investments.
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Regional Policy - 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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Regional Policy - 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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Regional Policy - 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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Regional Policy - Sustainability Planning Checklist
The Sustainability Planning Checklist has been developed to give planners and developers a regional tool to apply in the West Midlands. Specifically this will help give them an understanding of the key economic, social and environmental, national, regional and local sustainable communities and place making policy issues.
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Regional Policy - Sustainable Development Action Plans for Regional Organisations (SDAP)
The SDAP is a project to try and breakdown the barriers of interpretation and enable regional public sector organisations to apply sustainable development in a practical way.
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Sharing Success - 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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Sharing Success - Top Regional Green Leaders Awards
To identify and support the good practice of individuals who have demonstrated leadership within their sector or area in moving us to a more sustainable future.
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Wellbeing for Communities - Green New Deal
The aim of this project is to ensure that the opportunity to address 'worklessness' through public expenditure on 'green' projects is realised.
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Wellbeing for Communities - 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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Wellbeing for Communities - Local Strategic Partnerships
This aims to support Local Strategic Partnerships integrated Sustainable Development within their plans and projects.
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Wellbeing for Communities - 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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Wellbeing for Communities - Social Capital and Equality Diversity Programme (SCED)
The SCED programme tackles the social dimension of sustainability and aims to ensure theis is understood and supported at the regional level.
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