Including the closely related terms carbon literate, carbon future, and carbon development.
… businesses and universities will be playing a strong and growing role in delivering solutions locally and to cities around the world. The city’s businesses will have access to a rich pool of Carbon Literate local talent, fed by our world- class universities, and our excellent schools and colleges. All Manchester businesses will save money and improve their performance by increasing their energy…
… the coming decades will be those that develop and champion new models of low carbon, climate resilient growth. The choice is not between a low carbon future and growth, the choice is about how to develop an integrated city strategy that creates jobs and economic success, attracts investment, improves social wellbeing and health, at the same time as reversing global environmental impact. LOCAL…
… innovative new approaches to business-led low carbon development. Manchester Metropolitan University’s ‘zero carbon, zero waste’ Birley Fields campus, Manchester City Football Academy and its low carbon energy system, Whitworth Art Gallery’s energy efficient extension and refurbishment, and the Co-operative Group’s BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ development at One Angel Square are among the many initiatives…
… grown over the last six years to enable organisations large and small to work together on their journey to save carbon and money through reducing energy, water and waste. In the Corridor the City Council, the two Manchester universities, Central Manchester Hospital and Bruntwood have integrated low carbon and environmental priorities as part of the Corridor Partnership’s strategic vision…
… developments over the life of this strategy. The award-winning Carbon Literacy Project – a world-first approach, created in Manchester – was recognised at COP21 as one of 100 globally significant ‘Transformative Action Projects’. The award puts Carbon Literacy forward as an innovative means of engaging and inspiring people to act and recognises that, if rolled out at scale, it can make a material…