AGMA Environment

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AGMA Environment Commission  
Climate Change - Strategic Priorities
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Governance and Framework Projects

• Constitution
• Greater Manchester AGMA Executive
• Business Leadership Council, GM Forum
• Commissions
• MAA
• Climate Change as a core component
• GM Strategic Plan, Climate Change at the core

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Governance
AGMA EXECUTIVE BOARD
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
GM FORUM
SMG
ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SKILLS EMPLOYMENT
HOUSING PLANNING
HEALTH
IMPROVEMENT EFFICIENCY
TRANSPORT
PUBLIC PROTECTION
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Environment Commission
OTHER COMMISSIONS CROSS CUTTING PROJECTS
ENVIRONMENT COMMISSION
SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION PRODUCTION
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
CLIMATE CHANGE

• political leadership on Climate Change
• Establish a CCA
• Develop climate change policy
• Commission research and monitoring
• Address energy and adaptation challenges
• Put in place a CC Foundation to maximise
  investment

• work jointly with other Commissions on ecosystem
  services, critical infrastructure, resilience
• Green Infrastructure,
• Water
• Biodiversity
• develop initiatives across property investment
  and occupation and spatial planning.

• sustainable waste management for
  non-municipalmunicipal.
• inform GM Procure
• governance pathway for pollution prevention and
  enforcement
• encourage behavioural change
• facilitate growth and resilience of GM economy

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Environment commission

• Multi stakeholder
• Develops priorities
• Co-ordinates progress
• Establishes Capacity
• Governance for agencies, working forums etc
• Remit
• Climate Change
• Sustainable Production and Consumption
• Natural Environment
• Land, Air and Water Quality

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Mission

• To support the AGMA Executive Board in holding to
  account bodies which impact on the environmental
  well-being of the city region, to deliver
  strategies, plans and infrastructure that support
  their core environmental sustainability
  objectives, and to ensure that the wider work of
  the Executive Board reflects its environmental
  priorities.

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Environment Commission Members

• 6 Local Authority Councillors
• Cllr. Richard Cowell, Manchester
• Cllr. Mark Alcock, Oldham
• Cllr. David Goddard, Stockport
• Cllr. Catherine Piddington, Tameside
• Cllr. James Wibberley, Trafford
• Cllr. David Molyneux, Wigan
• 5 Non-Executive Members, (currently being
  recruited),
• Recognised figureheads from Business, 3rd Sector,
  Academia, Property and Development,
  communications.
• Ex officios acting within an advisory capacity.
• Supported by
• Strategic support
• Mike Reardon, Sarah Davies

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Environment Commission Timeline

• 1st meeting of elected members December 2008
• Terms of Reference and New Member Briefing 7th
  April 2009
• First full meeting of Environment Commission 6th
  May 2009

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Performance

• GM Emissions 2006 16.9 Million tonnes
• Higher than UK city region average domestic
  emissions per capita
• Lower than UK average city region commercial
  emissions per capita
• Higher than UK average transport emissions per
  GVA

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Environment Commission
ENVIRONMENT COMMISSION
CLIMATE CHANGE CONSORTIUM
SHARED OBJECTIVES
COMMISSIONS CCA TO CO-ORDINATE RESEARCH AND
DELIVER MAJOR PROGRAMMES
ACCOUNTABLE TO
COMMISSIONS CCA TO DELIVER SERVICES
CLIMATE CHANGE AGENCY
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Environment Commission Strategic Priorities

• Projects need to be developed at a scale and
  dimension which will bring about catalytic action
  across the city region. In essence this means
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•      Developing and aligning Manchesters offer
  to and capacity for low carbon and environmental
  business, including positioning the city region
  globally as a low-carbon investment location of
  choice for businesses in all major growth
  sectors.
• Developing strategic infrastructure to support
  resilience to climate change and to the effects
  of changing carbon economics, with a particular
  focus on ensuring Manchester has an armature of
  sustainable transport and utilities energy,
  water and waste infrastructure to support a
  shift to lower-impact living and working in every
  part of the city region.

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Environment Commission Themes

• spatial planning
• low carbon transport
• emerging low carbon industries
• procurement
• critical infrastructure
• Deployment large scale and microgeneration
• Sustainable lifestyles

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Environment Commission Strategic Priorities

• Policy Development Priorities
• Climate Change Transition Plan
• Headline catalytic actions
• GM Energy Plan
• Development Control and Spatial Planning
  principles
• Sustainable Transport
• Project Priorities
• Existing Housing Stock Challenges
• University technology spin out
• Entrepreneurial activities
• Technology deployment supported by skills
  development
• Catalytic Actions