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Places for Everyone, week 2 – Green Belt and Airport

Posted on 28 November, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

The Planning Inspectorate continues its Examination in Public of Greater Manchester’s nine district Places for Everyone joint spatial plan (known as P4E). We previously reported on week 1. Last week they discussed matters concerning the brownfields first policy, the justification … Continue reading →

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Greater Manchester must heed Heathrow judgement on airport expansion

Posted on 27 February, 2020 by The Steady State Manchester team

GM-CAN’s Response to the Decision on Heathrow’s Proposed Third Runway We, the members of Greater Manchester Climate Action Network (GM-CAN1) welcome the news that Heathrow’s plan to build a third runway has been ruled unlawful. This ruling is a reminder … Continue reading →

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Carbon budgets and footprints: a guide

Posted on 23 November, 2019 by The Steady State Manchester team

Greater Manchester Climate Network, with Green Drinks, organised a session called “Carbon Jargon Buster Workshop”. It was addressed by Joe Blakey from the University of Manchester. Joe has specialised in understanding the various methods and tools of carbon accounting, with … Continue reading →

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Manchester City Council declares a climate emergency!

Posted on 3 July, 2019 by The Steady State Manchester team

Update:  Manchester council unanimously passed the climate emergency motion. Watch the discussion HERE.  As cllr. Wright notes, this is not just a declaration but also a plan. And this one is serious: see the motion. https://t.co/Qvqmk2l7Fc We’ll all need to … Continue reading →

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Greater Manchester’s Environment Plan: a truthful version.

Posted on 5 May, 2019 by The Steady State Manchester team

A guest piece from Claire Stocks, Manchester Extinction Rebellion.  This is a commentary on the Greater Manchester Environment Plan 2019–2024 (see also Peter Somerville’s critique that we published before the recent Green Summit and the call from GM-CAN to do … Continue reading →

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GMCA’s draft Environment Plan for 2019-2024

Posted on 19 March, 2019 by The Steady State Manchester team

GMCA’s draft Environment Plan for 2019-2024. A guest commentary by Peter Somerville The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has published a Draft 5-year Environment Plan for 2019 to 2014. This is the first Environment Plan that the Authority has produced, and … Continue reading →

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Burners and preservers: most Greater Manchester MPs voted for more climate change

Posted on 29 June, 2018 by The Steady State Manchester team

You’ll no doubt have seen the parliament vote on Heathrow. It indicates the appalling disregard by a majority of politicians for the threat of climate change and for sensible economic policies more broadly. Only 5 out of 26 Greater Manchester … Continue reading →

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Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly.

Posted on 15 December, 2015 by The Steady State Manchester team

A lot has been written on the Paris international agreement on climate change.  To try and cut through all those words to the essential issues, here is our very brief analytic summary. The good Aspiration of no more than 1.5ºC … Continue reading →

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