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#Manchester Council’s extraordinary and humiliating failure of #climate scrutiny

Posted on December 7, 2018 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council has refused to answer basic questions about when councillors became aware that quarterly climate reports had been unilaterally abolished. Two weeks after all councillors on the Neighbourhood and Environment Scrutiny Committee (NESC) were sent a short specific … Continue reading →

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Going through the “democratic” motions: a complaint about #Manchester Labour and #climate inaction

Posted on December 5, 2018 by manchesterclimatemonthly

UPDATE:  The email I went to for complaints was only for officers’ behaviour.  It turns out you have to go here, download a pdf, fill it in (if you have the software to do that – elsewise presumably you have … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council flies staff to Southampton, Exeter, Edinburgh, while boasting about #climate policy

Posted on December 3, 2018 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council has paid for flights to Exeter, Southampton, Belfast, Southend and Edinburgh in the last year, while simultaneously telling everyone how seriously they take climate change. In addition to these numerous domestic flights, there are a number to … Continue reading →

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More horseshit from #Manchester Council on #climate

Posted on November 6, 2018 by manchesterclimatemonthly

It’s groundhog day again.  Every two or three years another glossy document full of horseshit is waved through a “scrutiny” committee on its way to Manchester City Council’s Executive.  You can (in theory, if you want reasons to kill yourself) … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council stops quarterly reports on its #carbon reduction farce.

Posted on October 17, 2018 by manchesterclimatemonthly

One of the few victories Manchester Climate Monthly could point to was forcing the Council to produce quarterly climate reports  (they promised it, under pressure, didn’t deliver it, and then following more pressure, did).  And now they’ve stopped, following a … Continue reading →

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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 manchesterclimatemonthly

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 manchesterclimatemonthly

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 manchesterclimatemonthly

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 manchesterclimatemonthly

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 manchesterclimatemonthly

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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