The Climate Change Partnership for Yorkshire & Humber
The Yorkshire and Humber Climate Change Partnership brings together the key agencies across the region to drive forward our work to tackle to cause and effects of climate change.
Posted: 09 April 2010
NI188 Advanced Workshop for the Northern Regions
Download the presentations from the dedicated workshop for local authorities in the Northern Regions who are aiming to achieve the highest levels of performance against NI188 'Planning to adapt to climate change'.
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Posted: 05 April 2010
CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
The Government's scheme to cut carbon emissions in large organisations went live on 01 April 2010. Find help and guidance here.
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Posted: 30 March 2010
LGA Publishes UKCP09 Guide for Elected Members
This publication, produced in conjunction with Defra and UKCIP, offers key decision makers in local authorities a short introduction into the projections: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they can help you make key decisions.
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Posted: 29 March 2010
Climate Change Skills Fund
The region is to benefit from a one off £860k Climate Change Skills Fund to be managed by YoHr Space. The funding will help build skills and capacity across the range of local authority responsbilities needed to tackle climate change.
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Posted: 29 March 2010
56m€ Intelligent Energy Europe Programme
The 2010 Call for Proposals for the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme was published yesterday. The Call budget is 56m€ and the Call deadline is 24th June 2010. The Call documentation can be accessed at http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/call_for_proposals/call_library_en.htm
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Posted: 12 January 2010
Network hosts Citizen Engagement Workshop
The Local Area Climate Change Network hostsed an exciting workshop focussed on engaging citizens on tackling climate change on 26th January in Leeds.
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Posted: 15 October 2009
UKCP09 introductory site – update your bookmarks
At the end of the year, the UKCP09 introductory website (http://ukcp09.defra.gov.uk )will be retired, and from then, access to all UKCP09 information will only be through the main technical site, http://ukclimateprojections.defra.gov.uk
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Posted: 14 October 2009
Centre for Low Carbon Futures -
An innovative new £50 million research centre will be meeting the global challenge of climate change by harnessing the expertise and research power of Yorkshire universities.
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Posted: 12 August 2009
Top Ten to Cut Carbon in Yorkshire
A new report, “The Top Ten Interventions to Cut Regional Carbon Emissions,” identifies the most viable and cost effective interventions which could reduce the region’s carbon emissions by up to 23% by 2020.
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