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01st April 2022 to 31st March 2023The Manchester Climate Change Agency CIC (MCCA, the Agency) was incorporated on 2nd September 2015 with the aim to ‘Undertake activities that support, encourage and enable individuals and organisations in Manchester and beyond to act on climate change’, as set out in the Agency’s Articles of Association.MCCA, working with the Manchester Climate Change Partnership (MCCP, the Partnership) endeavours to carry out activities which benefit the community and in particular (without limitation) to undertake activities that support, encourage and enable organisations and organisations in Manchester and beyond to take action on climate change. Our work is to help Manchester meets its commitment to ‘play its full part in limiting the impacts of climate change’, ensuring that we help to keep global heating to well below 2oC. Additionally, our role is to ensure that climate change action helps our communities to thrive, our businesses to prosper, and that we continue to draw people and businesses to the city to share in our success. Manchester Climate Change Agency delivers a range of activities that support Manchester’s transition to a zero carbon, climate resilient city. This year, this has included delivering grant-funded programmes with UK and EU partners on: Taking community-led climate action Developing science-based targets for citiesRaising awareness of sustainable food with young people Implementing nature-based solutions to climate adaptation Promoting renewable energy The Agency also helps to progress the strategic priorities of the city‘s Climate Change Framework and to position Manchester as a climate leader. This year, this has included work on: Adapting the city to a changing climate Unlocking finance for the transition to net zero Tackling health inequalities associated with climate change Working with international cities on business collaboration Sharing best practice with UK Core Cities Securing an A list rating from CDPThe Agency also convenes and catalyses action by Manchester’s Climate Change Partner-ship. This brings together organisations from across the city’s public, private, and voluntary sectors that share the common goal of achieving the ambitious objectives and targets set out in the Manchester Climate Change Framework 2020-2025.The Manchester Climate Change Partnership is the city’s main mechanism for engaging and inspiring organisations and residents to act. It brings together organisations from across the city’s public, private, and voluntary sectors that share the common goal of achieving the am-bitious objectives and targets set out in the Manchester Climate Change Framework 2020-2025. The Partnership currently engages with over 80 organisations, across 10 sectors, who have wide reach and influence over the cities carbon emissions through their staff, students, customers, tenants, football fans, theatre-goers, worshippers, and others. By working with their supply chains members are also helping to reduce the city’s consumption-based CO2 emissions. The Partnership’s current membership is outlined at https://www.manchesterclimate.com/MCCPPartnership members commit to:Take urgent action within the scope of their own activities, andwork collaboratively to help others in the wider Manchester community and economy to take urgent action.The aim of the Partnership is to:Work with Manchester Climate Change Agency, Manchester communities, Manchester City Council and other relevant partners to ensure that the city develops and successfully implements a climate change strategy which is aligned with the latest science and built on the diverse views of the city’s stakeholders.The Partnership engages with its members and wider stakeholders via a suite of activities and initiatives that support Manchester’s transition to a zero carbon, climate resilient city. This diverse offer provides a broad opportunity for all to contribute in an impactful way that best suits their expertise, capacity and interests whilst also delivering benefit to their own organisation, members or sector.The Partnership works closely with the Agency, using its expertise and capacity to mobilise action. Between 2022 and 2023 this included: Working with the Partnership to set the city’s climate change strategy and targets via the 2022 Update to Manchester’s Climate Change Framework and reporting the city’s progress towards its climate change goals. Catalysing and convening Partnership initiatives including City Challenges, Peer to Peer learning, Advisory Groups, Networking, Virtual Teams and the Youth Partnership. Collaborating with Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Combined Authority to deliver shared objectives and climate action plans.Throughout 2022-2023 both MCCA and the MCCP have continued to make progress against our aim. We have produced our first impact report which can be viewed here: https://www.manchesterclimate.com/Impact-ReportsThe report details Agency and Partnership activity covering the period April 2022 to March 2023. Key achievements include:80 Organisations involved in the Partnership 29 new organisations involved in Partnership Initiatives £2.7m grant funding secured 27 programmes and initiatives led or supported by the Agency £200k invested in communities4,700 individuals engaged in climate action A list rating for Manchester secured from CDPKey activities initiated and supported by MCCA Include: 2022 Update to The Manchester Climate Change Framework (2020-25)Building on the Agency and Partnership’s work in 2021/22, MCCA published an update to the city’s climate change strategy, The Manchester Climate Change Framework (2020-25) in October 2022. The original five-year Framework, published in 2020, set a science-based target for the city to reach zero carbon by 2038 and created a carbon budget for the period with a first milestone for Manchester to halve its direct, energy related emissions by 2025. The 2022 Update was a response to the city not being on track to stay within its carbon budget by 2025 and aimed to provide more detailed targets for different sectors and different types of energy use in buildings and ground transport to help guide increased action. We achieved this by working with Anthesis and using their SCATTER tool to model the different pathways of emission reductions needed to achieve a 50% reduction in emissions.Alongside the targets for reducing our emissions by 50%, the Update included a suite of 175 Recommended Actions that were co-designed with stakeholders from across the city, Partnership members and communities that had been involved in the Climate Assemblies of 2021. The recommended actions were split in to four categories, those to be delivered nationally, regionally and locally and those where we will need to innovate. The local actions were designed to guide and inspire local businesses, voluntary sector organisations, community groups, individuals and the local authority to make impactful changes that help the city meet its climate goals. City Challenges City Challenges are a new initiative of the Partnership which bring together the expertise and capacity of local stakeholders to tackle a complex climate challenge the city is facing via a task and finish group, lasting six to nine months. City challenges are extended to include organisations that are not members of the Partnership, further expanding our reach and impact to achieve our objectives. Two city challenges were launched in 2022; Net Zero New Buildings and Commercial Building Retrofit. Net Zero New Buildings - For Manchester to stay within its carbon budget, we need to strive for the highest net zero standards in new buildings; this will also avoid adding to the city’s future retrofit needs. This City Challenge was established to seize the opportunity created by the update of Manchester’s Local Plan scheduled for 2023. The goal is to include residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings, plus operational and embodied carbon across the whole life cycle. The group includes stakeholders from across the built environment sector who are leading the way in raising net zero standards.Commercial Building Retrofit - For Manchester to stay within its carbon budget, we need to retrofit our buildings, including commercial premises. The Framework target is for this sector to reduce its energy demand by 61% to support the city to halve its emissions. This City Challenge was established to understand the barriers and develop solutions to accelerating commercial retrofit in Manchester and includes stakeholders from across the built environment sector who are leading the way in decarbonising commercial properties. The project will align with industry standards and focus on achieving outcomes that benefit all stakeholders. Peer To Peer Learning Peer to Peer learning is a new initiative between Partnership members that involves the open sharing of lessons learned during the implementation of climate action within their own organisations. Two themes were explored this year: the setting of science-based targets to drive climate action and using sustainable procurement to reduce carbon emissions through supply chains.Virtual TeamsVirtual Teams is a new way for Partnership members to pool their expertise and resources. The focus this year was on climate communications. Through this virtual team, we hope to develop and roll out a citywide climate change campaign to engage citizens and businesses across Manchester and emphasise the need for urgent and collective action to reduce emissions from buildings and transport while increasing renewable energy generation.In Our NatureIn Our Nature is a community climate programme led by the Agency. It began with an 18-month development grant from the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund, completing in August 2022, that tested the appetite of communities in Manchester for targeted support on local climate action and trialled different climate campaigns and engagement methods. It worked with six community groups across Levenshulme, Rusholme, Hulme, Moss Side, Miles Platting, Newton Heath and the Northern Quarter to build capacity for local action and to deliver projects on the ground including home energy efficiency workshops, gardening takeover days, community fridges, a walk-in wardrobe and library of things, and urban planters. The project results in £200,000 being invested in Manchester’s communities and 4,700 actively engaged through projects and events. In September 2022, the Agency secured an additional £2.5m from the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund to scale-up our activity and deliver a three-year In Our Nature programme. We expanded our delivery partnership and attracted additional match funding of £1m including from the Wates Family Enterprise Trust.The project will:Help Manchester residents to design and implement over 50 community-led projects to tackle climate change in a way that is meaningful to them and their local priorities. Provide on-the-ground support to community groups in ten wards across north, central and south Manchester and make indirect-financial support available to at least ten more. Develop local carbon footprints for all 32 wards in Manchester to help communities design impactful projects that ensure the city remains within its carbon budget. Produce simple and practical resources to inspire and support residents across the city to take climate action, including case studies, toolkits and how-to guides on a range of topics. Deliver opportunities for residents to grow their capacity for collaboration and climate action, uncovering local climate champions and unleashing their power for change. Establish a Community Coalition of local residents to facilitate collaboration, amplify success, share ideas and lessons learned, and become ambassadors for climate action in Manchester – building a city-wide movement.Adaptation And Resilience to Climate ChangeBuilding on the 2021 ‘Framework for understanding hazards and vulnerability’, Manchester Metropolitan University, the Partnership’s Adaptation and Resilience Advisory Group, and the Agency worked collaboratively to produce ‘Manchester Climate Ready: developing progressive resilience across the city’ in 2022. It sets out a vision for a more climate resilient Manchester that enhances the capacity of the city to adapt to future climate shocks and stresses and that is aligned with broader progressive agendas on health, social justice, biodiversity and a sustainable, inclusive economy. It identifies seven defining principles of progressive resilience including increasing strategic capacity, embedding resilience into policy, enhancing green and blue infrastructure, and encouraging research and innovation. It lists practical actions against the seven principles for a range of stakeholders including communities and individuals, businesses, and local government.A new website was launched in mid-2022 by the Agency and MMU to explain adaptation and resilience in simple language and to present examples of good practice in Manchester and beyond including green walls, sustainable urban drainage, flood risk management, urban tree planting, rainwater harvesting, and business continuity planning.Local climate projections and heat risk in Manchester Understanding how the climate will change over time is key to being able to adapt the city and protect vulnerable communities and infrastructure. In 2022, the Agency worked with the Met Office and local partners Manchester City Council and Manchester Metropolitan University on a series of resources to help decision-makers plan for the future and ensure Manchester becomes more resilient to climate change.Met Office Collaboration The Manchester City Pack provides high-level, non-technical summaries of climate change projections for Manchester. It sets out the negative impacts of climate change for urban areas including heat, drought, drainage, rainfall, transport disruption and energy infrastructure failure. It predicts warmer, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers. The Manchester Heat Pack provides information on how extreme heat events in Manchester may change this century, their impacts, and how to build resilience to them. It sets out the negative impacts of extreme heat including increased mortality, overheating of buildings, reduced productivity, increased energy demand and transport disruption. The Manchester Heat Risk Story Map overlays climate data on extreme heat with socio-economic data to show where and who is most vulnerable to extreme heat under current and future climate change. It examines the hazard exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of the 32 wards in Manchester to produce an overall heat vulnerability index. https://www.manchesterclimateready.com/manchetserclimateprojectionsHealth, Wellbeing and Climate change In response to ‘Build Back Fairer in Greater Manchester: Health Equity and Dignified Lives’, which set out bold and ambitious recommendations on how to reduce health inequities and build back fairer from the COVID-19 pandemic, Manchester established a task group to develop an action plan to tackle health inequalities in the city. The Agency was co-lead for climate change alongside Manchester City Council within this task group and the resulting ‘Making Manchester Fairer Action Plan’ sets out how Manchester will adopt a whole system approach to addressing health inequalities and clearly articulates the links between good public health and positive climate action. http://www.manchester.gov.uk/makingmanchesterfairerFinancing the Transition to Net Zero Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living programme aims to help places overcome the challenges of delivering net zero at scale including attracting private finance, co-ordinating multiple stakeholders, engaging with citizens, and navigating procurement and governance processes. The Agency provided technical support to Manchester City Council, Manchester Metropolitan University, Equans and Bankers Without Boundaries, to secure £75k of grant funding for a feasibility study into a novel approaches to unlocking finance for net zero in Manchester. The funding was confirmed early in 2023 and positions Manchester as one of 30 pathfinder places in the UK; the study will be delivered between April-June 2023. It will explore the barriers and opportunities of a neighbourhood model that bundles together building retrofit, renewable energy generation and storage, heat networks, demand responsive transport systems, and electricity grid upgrades with sustainable urban drainage, town centre regeneration and public realm improvements to attract a blended portfolio of public and private sector financial investment at scale. It will also explore the critical role of community engagement in successful net zero action.International Best Practice: working internationally to help achieve our aim and targets. The Agency has played a key role in developing partnerships with EU organisations and securing funding to deliver largescale programmes with a significant Manchester footprint spanning several years. All focus on supporting different aspects of Manchester’s transition to a zero carbon, climate resilient city. Over 2022/23:The Agency has continued to support The Manchester City Council (as the project lead) with the delivery of the GrowGreen and Zero Carbon Cities project, delivering a SUDS-enabled park in West Gorton and developing and Integrated Climate Change Action Plan for the city both of which were completed in 2022. The Agency has continued to support the delivery of the FoodWave project. To co-develop knowledge and action with young people on sustainable approaches to consuming and producing food in cities and seeks to inform and influence food related policy and decision making.The Agency has continued to work with the City Business Climate Alliance to expand the Manchester Climate Change Partnership, our primary mechanism for consulting with businesses and to share best practice with other international cities. The Agency was part of a successful bid to roll out the TRANSIT project. Starting in October 2022 the 3 year European project consists of 12 partners in eight European countries raising awareness of renewable energy as an emerging technology and rewarding career path with stakeholders in academia, industry, policy makers and local communities.All the activity listed above is designed to fulfil our aim to ‘Undertake activities that support, encourage and enable individuals and organisations in Manchester and beyond to act on climate change’, as set out in the Agency’s Articles of Association.For more information please find our 2022-23 impact report here: https://www.manchesterclimate.com/Impact-Reports
The stakeholders for the organisation are everyone who lives, works and studies in Manchester, we all have a part to play in tackling climate change and securing a zero carbon and climate resilient future. Consultation with Businesses and OrganisationsAs stated in section 1, Manchester’s Climate Change Partnership is the city’s main mechanism for engaging and inspiring organisations and residents to act. It is convened and supported by the Agency.The Partnership currently engages with over 80 organisations, across 10 sectors, that have wide reach and influence over the city's carbon emissions not only through their organisational activities but also through their staff, students, customers, tenants, football fans, theatre-goers, worshippers, and others. Throughout 2022/23 Partnership members have been consulted by the Agency in numerous ways: 2022 Update to the Manchester Climate Change Framework - Partnership members were consulted by the Agency on the update of the city’s Framework through group meetings and 1-2-1’s as appropriate. This has helped to shape the updated Framework. 2022 Member Survey - In 2022, the Agency worked with CDP and C40 Cities to develop a survey to consult and collate best practice by Partnership members. The survey captured positive climate action across seven thematic areas including energy efficiency, building retrofit, renewable energy generation, sustainable procurement, electric vehicles, sustainable commuting, adaptation planning, environmental training and governance. The results highlighted the scale of positive action being delivered across the city and highlighted opportunities for Partnership members to learn from each other. Alongside this process, the Agency conducted 1-2-1s with all Partnership members to further understand their survey responses and their support needs. Based on Partner responses, the city challenge and peer-to-peer programmes were designed (see part 1) to provide tailored support to members and drive urgent action to reduce emissions where there were gaps in activity. Virtual Comms Team – The virtual comms team brings together comms expertise from organisations across the Partnership. The group is led by the Agency and will be consulted throughout the development of a citywide communications campaign to ensure the campaign is promoting the correct messages and behaviours to help our city reach zero carbon. City Challenge Groups – In 2022 two city challenge groups were formed by the Agency (see part 1) which included a wide range of local and national industry experts and stakeholders. These groups have facilitated challenging conversations with local policy makers and will result in detailed recommendations to the city council and combined authority around reducing emissions from our built environment. City Business Climate Alliance - Throughout 2022/23 the Agency consulted with businesses through the City Business Climate Alliance project (CBCA), an initiative from C40 Cities, CDP and World Business Council for Sustainable Development. The Alliance supported several business workshops that fed into the 2022 Update of the Manchester Climate Change Framework and brought insight to the Partnership’s new city challenges and the peer-to-peer session on setting and reporting on science-based targets. The Alliance also provided international collaboration opportunities with workshops completed with New York and Texas, and presentations from Manchester to all members of the CBCA.Consultation with Residents and CommunitiesThe Agency consults directly with residents and communities through the In Our Nature Programme (see part 1). The development phase of the programme allowed us to engage and consult with over 4,700 residents through projects and events, this fed into the main In Our Nature bid, as well as the Update of the city’s Climate Change Framework. The current phase of the In Our Nature programme has engaged with over 3900 residents through events, installations and workshops. The programme is also working in four deep dive locations (Cheetham Hill, Longsight, Sharston and Gorton and Abbey Hey) using community mapping and listening exercises to identify the issues that residents face, the barriers they face when taking climate actions and what support they need to create long-term behaviour change in their communities and build their capacity. We are collaborating with 9 community groups to identify and design projects in these areas: Manchester Youth Zone, Nurturing Foundations, Ryder Brow Allotments, Age UK Crossacres, Crumpsall Climate Leaders, Wythenshawe Muslim Association, Heart & Soul community research team, Khizra Mosque and the Wai Yin Society. In addition to this, there have been 8600 visitors to the new In Our Nature website, 6729 followers across the In Our Nature Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and 485 subscribers to the programme newsletter.On an ongoing basis, the Agency works with Manchester City Council’s Neighbourhoods Team to support and facilitate consultation with residents and communities on climate change, using feedback to influence the delivery of the In Our Nature programme and wider Council services including community grants, to ensure it is fulfilling the needs of our residents and communities. The Agency’s website and social media channels facilitate regular information exchange and dialogue with local residents, communities and related stakeholders. In 2022/23 this included: Over 61,000 visits to www.manchesterclimate.comOver 4,400 Twitter followers @MCRclimateConsultation with Young PeopleThe Manchester Climate Change Youth Board continues to be the Agency’s main mechanism for consulting with the city’s young people. The Manchester Climate Change Youth Board was formed in 2017 and has a seat on the Manchester Climate Change Partnership – putting young people at the heart of climate action in Manchester.In 2022, the Agency worked with the Youth Board during the development of the Update to the Manchester Climate Change Framework and supported the Youth Board with the organisation of their Youth Climate Conference, held in November 2022. Additionally, the Agency worked closely with youth groups through the development stage of the In Our Nature programme, particularly in Miles Platting through the Miles Platting Community Action Network to enhance local greenspaces.Further ConsultationThe Agency also consults with its stakeholders by contributing to various local, regional, and national forums, including but not limited to:Manchester Food BoardManchester Strategic Housing BoardGreen Economy Advisory BoardBee Net Zero PartnershipManchester Digital Strategy GroupMaking Manchester Fairer Manchester Urban InstituteManchester City Council Economic and Climate Change Scrutiny CommitteeSeveral Manchester City Council zero carbon working groupsSeveral Greater Manchester zero carbon mission based approached working groups Northwest Public Health & Sustainability CollaborationUK Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN)UK Core Cities Low Carbon Group
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This report was approved by the board of directors on
16 October 2023
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Michael Wilton
Status: Director