Category Archives: Manchester City Council

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What does #COP21 mean for #Manchester

Posted on December 12, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

James Hansen is the go-to guy for climate change. In 1981 his work put climate change on the front page of the New York Times.  In June 1988 he spoke out when other climate scientists were too cautious, too scared … Continue reading →

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Letter in #Manchester Evening News on #climate change (again)

Posted on November 5, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Thank you for your article (MEN 3rd November “Region’s council bosses renew push to reduce carbon emissions in Greater Manchester”) on the  “plan” to reduce Greater Manchester’s CO2 emissions by over 5 million tonnes between 2012 and 2020. The report … Continue reading →

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Letter slamming council on broken #climate promises published by #Manchester Evening News

Posted on October 17, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

The Manchester Evening News has a letter today that slams Kate Chappell, the Executive Member for the Environment for a broken promise (she said she would set up a blog, never did so). The letter (written by some Moss Side … Continue reading →

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More pathetic spin from #Manchester City Council about its carbon emissions. #climate

Posted on September 30, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Back in 2013 Manchester City Council tried to spin an increase in its emissions as a decrease. They were laughed at then. They have, of course, learnt nothing, and they’re claiming decreases that are basically illusory and not what was … Continue reading →

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Will someone not kill off this undemocratic and worse-than-useless “Stakeholder” “Steering” “Group”? #manchester #climate

Posted on September 29, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

What do you call an organisation that promises and then cancels elections to its board? What do you call an organisation that unilaterally cancels day-long community-focused conferences and replaces it with a 90 minute talkfest by three old white men? … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Airport misses #climate target, comically inept spin ensues. Write to your councillor #democracy

Posted on September 28, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Back in the heady Big Promise days of 2009/2010, some bright spark came up with the idea that the ground operations of Manchester Airport (lighting, power for the x-ray machines etc but not the actions of the big metal birds … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council emissions UP by 4.8% in last year

Posted on September 22, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

For the umpteenth time, Manchester City Council is making excuses for its poor-to-the-point-of-criminal performance on climate change.  MCFly reporter Ann Onymous reports. (As for involving everyone in the creation of a low carbon culture.  They won’t even define what they … Continue reading →

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AfSL to shut doors – and what implications for #Manchester A Cretin Future?

Posted on July 23, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Action for Sustainable Living is shutting up shop. The charity, founded by the late Chris Wright, was particularly active in the second half of the last decade, but found its funding streams drying up as austerity took hold, as reported … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Council breaks promise to release #climate report

Posted on July 18, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

UPDATE: This story has been amended to include facts that I should have checked. Apologies to the Chair of the Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Committee. I will leave an apology on the blog that the Executive Member for the Environment promised to … Continue reading →

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#Manchester a Cretin Future – #climate conference epic fail…

Posted on July 8, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Last year the Steering Group refused to release its annual report before the agm. The year before that… but look, the Steering Group is a contemptible joke. Everybody except, it seems, themselves, knows this. Here is a blog post from … Continue reading →

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