Category Archives: Manchester City Council

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The mayor’s green summit – what to expect in the coming weeks, months, years. #Manchester #climate

Posted on February 15, 2018 by

In his  March 2017 manifesto for the Mayoral election, Andy Burnham promised to hold an environmental summit ‘within a year’ of being elected.  Originally scheduled for late 2017, there was “slippage” and the summit is now going to happen in … Continue reading →

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Manchester City Council refuses to make database of carbon literacy training public

Posted on October 4, 2017 by

Back in 2009 Manchester City Council said that everyone who lived, worked or studied in Manchester would receive a day of carbon literacy training (an online and face-to-face thing) by the end of 2013. In late 2012 Council leader Richard … Continue reading →

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New #Manchester Council CEO gets NO specific #climate plan report

Posted on October 3, 2017 by

Manchester City Council’s new Chief Executive, Joanne Roney, has not done her carbon literacy training (as reported yesterday).  Neither has she been given anything more than a verbal briefing on the status of the City Council’s climate change action plan … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Carbon Literacy debacle – no Senior Management Team take training

Posted on October 2, 2017 by

Manchester City Council has a ‘Senior Management Team’ made up of ten well-paid bureaucrats.  How many of them has done the ‘carbon literacy training’  that is supposed to help Manchester become a low carbon culture?  Well, in February the answer … Continue reading →

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Letter: demonstrably inadequate ‘leaders’ #Manchester #climate

Posted on September 20, 2017 by

And the text I sent – Ten years ago Manchester City Council was talking about being the ‘greenest city in the UK by 2010. It didn’t happen. Eight years ago it launched a “plan” to cut emissions by 41% by … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council promises #climate events – doesn’t deliver

Posted on September 6, 2017 by

The cycle continues.  Bureaucrats promise a series of actions.  Councillors on a scrutiny committee rouse themselves from their (metaphorical) slumber to say “great”.  Months later there’s a table produced that purports to show what’s going on.  So-called scrutiny committees don’t, … Continue reading →

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No plans to train Council staff in carbon literacy… #Manchester #climate #debacle

Posted on May 14, 2017 by

So, in January the Executive Member for the Environment told a committee of councillors that she was taking personal charge of carbon literacy training. Six weeks later MCFly requested, among other things;  A copy of the document/documents that exist that … Continue reading →

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