Our Roadmap to 2030
24 May 2019
SWM News May 2019 – WM Local Industrial Strategy has clean growth at its heart
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3 May 2019
Committee on Climate Change: Phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to end UK contribution to global warming
The Committee on Climate Change has published a report looking into how the UK could phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in order to help tackle global warming. Given…
External Reports
29 Apr 2019
SWM News April 2019 – Is Brexit taking the environmental biscuit?
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1 Apr 2019
Construction bit by bit: getting the industry to adopt digital – 21/3/19
Sustainability West Midlands in partnership with the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands and CITB convened an event aimed at encouraging the construction industry to adopt digital technologies in order to improve productivity, sustainability and efficiency.
Our Events & Presentations
28 Mar 2019
SWM News March 2019 – Youth Action and our Young Director
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20 Mar 2019
Innovative Low Carbon Working Group – 19/3/19
Sustainability West Midlands in partnership with the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands convenes the Innovative Low Carbon Working Group (ILCWG) and its associated quarterly meetings.
Our Events & Presentations
28 Feb 2019
SWM West Midlands Rail Investment Strategy 2019 Commentary
The West Midlands Rail Executive has recently published their West Midland Rail Investment Strategy, setting out the 30-year goals for improvement to the rail network in the region. The purpose of this commentary is to analyse some of the key proposals and discuss their implications, both positive and negative, on sustainability for the West Midlands' transport network.
Our Reports & Guides
28 Feb 2019
SWM News February 2019 – Innovating to meet the challenges of the future
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25 Feb 2019
UK housing: Fit for the future?
Date of the report February 2019 Author of the report Committee on Climate Change Purpose of the report This report, by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) and its Adaptation…
External Reports
11 Feb 2019
SWM Environmental Impact Report 2016/17 and 2017/18
The aim of this report is to demonstrate good practice as a small business by producing an annual environmental report that covers the main impacts we have, how we are managing them and securing any potential costs savings or other benefits.
Our Reports & Guides
31 Jan 2019
SWM News January 2019 – New year, new opportunities!
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10 Jan 2019
Aston University goes Plastic Free
The aim of this project was to reduce single-use plastic consumption on campus through a number of different means including encouraging behaviour-change such as encouraging use of reusable cups for hot drinks, encouraging tap water consumption, and not using balloons at graduations.
External Case Studies
20 Dec 2018
SWM News December 2018 – Will 2019 be the year of action?
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7 Dec 2018
Innovative Low Carbon Working Group meeting – 7/12/18
Sustainability West Midlands in partnership with the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands convenes the Innovative Low Carbon Working Group (ILCWG) and its associated quarterly meetings
Our Events & Presentations
5 Dec 2018
SWM Annual Conference: ‘Local Industrial Strategies – A Clean Revolution for the West Midlands?’ – 03/12/18
The SWM Annual Conference provides our members and stakeholders the opportunity to hear about current and future priorities on sustainability for the West Midlands. This year we focused on the development of Local Industrial Strategies hearing from LEPs and the WMCA. Our keynote speaker was Myles Allen, leading contributing author on the IPCC Special Report.
Our Events & Presentations
26 Nov 2018
SWM Consultation Response: West Midlands Combined Authority Local Industrial Strategy
This is a review of the Local Industrial Strategy (LIS) published by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) by Sustainability West Midlands.
Our Reports & Guides
26 Nov 2018
SWM News November 2018 – A Clean Revolution for the West Midlands?
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30 Oct 2018
SWM Roadmap 2020 Monitoring Report – 2018
The purpose of this report is to provide evidence to policy makers within the West Midlands on progress on the sustainability economic, social and environmental goals and priorities for the region set out in the West Midlands Roadmap to a Sustainable Future in 2020.
Our Reports & Guides
26 Oct 2018
SWM News October 2018 – IPCC report highlights need for action
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28 Sep 2018
SWM News September 2018 – Join us at our annual conference
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26 Sep 2018
Combined Authority Sustainability Benchmarking Technical Report – analysis of strategies 2018
This report looks at how the WMCA is performing against the other combined authorities (CAs) in England in terms of reported sustainability activity in leadership, strategy and delivery and provides a series of recommendations to improve performance.
Our Reports & Guides
19 Sep 2018
Innovative Low Carbon Working Group meeting – 18/9/18
Sustainability West Midlands in partnership with the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands convenes the Innovative Low Carbon Working Group (ILCWG) and its associated quarterly meetings
Our Events & Presentations
30 Jul 2018
SWM News July 2018 – Can policy translate into action?
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26 Jul 2018
West Midlands Local Industrial Strategy Low Carbon Evidence Base
This report provides an overview and analysis of the evidence related to the low carbon sector that was used to inform the development of the new West Midlands Local Industrial Strategy (LIS), the development of which was led by the WMCA.
Our Reports & Guides