Here are some factoids that may get mentioned at the Climate Hustings “Is Manchester City Council Taking the Right Action on Climate Change?” on Tuesday 17th April (Friends Meeting House, from 7pm). You can book your ticket here.

229* organisations have endorsed the Manchester Climate Change Action Plan. Part of endorsing it is agreeing to write your own plan (no specific time limit is set out for this).
According to the official website (not updated very frequently, it’s true), the grand total of organisations that have writing their own plan is… two. And these heroes are … Manchester City Council and Northwards Housing (the Council’s “arms length management organisation for some of its housing).

This cartoon below, by the wonderful Marc Roberts, from 2010, looks eerily prescient.

* Looking through the list, I can vision one (if not twenty-one) that is no longer with us. An interesting set of questions to ask the Steering Group – are they culling ‘dead’ organisations from the list? Has anyone de-endorsed the plan, or been de-endorsed? Is there even a mechanism for that?  Is there a time limit on how long you can be on the endorsers’ list without making your own plan?