
4 Feb 2025
Midlands Local Authority Climate Action Benchmark 2024
This report provides a summary of the progress that local (and combined) authorities in the Midlands are making against various aspects of climate action. It gives local authorities and their supporting organisations, including with whom we have collaborated, the Midlands Net Zero Hub and CDP, a clearer idea of what support is required.
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30 Sep 2024
SWM Newsletter September 2024: Roadmap to 2030 to Undergo Full Strategic Review
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6 Sep 2024
Economic Impact Assessment of Climate Change on the Economy of the West Midlands Combined Authority Region
This report looks to quantify the potential economic impacts climate change could have on the WMCA region.
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29 Aug 2024
SWM Newsletter August 2024: Could you be our new Membership Manager?
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30 Jul 2024
SWM Newsletter July 2024: The Dust is Settling – the New Government’s Legislative Agenda
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24 Jul 2024
Roadmap to 2030 – Monitoring Report 2024
This report monitors how the West Midlands is progressing against the targets laid out in our 2030 Sustainability Roadmap
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27 Jun 2024
SWM Newsletter June 2024: Your vote for a sustainable West Midlands in the general election
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30 May 2024
SWM Newsletter May 2024: Lay of the Land
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17 May 2024
Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality – the Role of Innovation – 24/04/24
IHWG/IZCWG Joint Meeting – Blog Six per cent of mortality in the West Midlands is due to poor ambient air…
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30 Apr 2024
SWM Newsletter April 2024: Your Votes for a Sustainable West Midlands in the Local Elections
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28 Mar 2024
SWM Newsletter March 2024: Adapt to Survive
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29 Feb 2024
SWM Newsletter February 2024: Time to BNG a Green Roof on Developments
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22 Feb 2024
Weathering the Storm for Agriculture
This is a practical guide designed to help farmers and land managers become more resilient to extreme weather, better adapted to the changing climate and more attuned to potential new business opportunities that may arise from a warming world
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30 Jan 2024
SWM Newsletter January 2024: Inspired by Innovation
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25 Jan 2024
Innovative Zero Carbon Working Group Meeting – 24/01/24
Speakers Background Sustainability West Midlands in partnership with the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands convenes the Innovative Zero Carbon Working Group (IZCWG) and…
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20 Dec 2023
SWM Newsletter December 2023: Reasons For Hope In 2024
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13 Dec 2023
Adapt to Survive
A toolkit and suite of resources to help NHS Trusts, ICBs or ICSs kick-start or further develop their work on climate change risks, impacts and adaptation actions.
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5 Dec 2023
SWM Members Mingle & AGM 2023 – 05/12/23
SWM hold an annual networking event for their members so that they can meet and learn from each other’s sustainability expertise, with the view to nurture future collaborations within our sector...
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28 Nov 2023
SWM Newsletter November 2023: Nature Is Our Greatest Ally
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16 Nov 2023
West Midlands Local Authority Sustainability Benchmark 2023
This report provides a summary of the progress that local authorities in the West Midlands are making against various aspects of sustainability associated with the West Midlands Sustainability Roadmap to 2030.
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26 Oct 2023
SWM Newsletter October 2023: It’s Time to Mingle!
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27 Sep 2023
SWM Newsletter September 2023: Let’s make the invisible, visible.
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20 Sep 2023
OnGen Expert: Midlands Net Zero Hub Case Study
Lead Organisation OnGen Overview The Midlands Net Zero Hub has worked successfully with OnGen’s award-winning software, OnGen Expert, to establish…
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19 Sep 2023
Adapt to Survive: Adapting the NHS to Climate Change – 12/9/23
This event, which was attended by 78 individuals from a range of NHS Trusts, ICBs and ICSs from across the UK, looked at climate change risks, and their likely impacts, in more detail, discovered why Trusts urgently need to adapt to these risks, what this looks like in practice, and what we’re doing to help them.
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