Regional Action on Climate Change
Mike PeverillRegional Climate Change Coordinator (East Midlands)[email protected] 07795 060 941
1. Welcome
2. What’s happening at regional level?
3. Who does what?
4. What support is available to local authorities in your region?
5. Further information
Regional Action on Climate Change
2. What’s happening at regional level?
• Regional action sits between LAAs and Climate Change Act (grit in the oyster)
• 100% ND sign up• Regional Climate Change Partnerships
and Coordinators• Regional Plans• Regional knowledge
Key Questions• Do you know your Regional
Coordinator?• Is your Council represented on the
RCCP?• How well networked are you?
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3. Who does what?
Sub-National Review• Regional Assemblies to disappear• New Local Authority Leaders’ Boards • RSS and RES to be replaced by
Regional Strategy• Joint responsibility of RDA and
Leaders’ Board• Climate Change must be included
Key questions• Are you familiar with your current
regional ‘landscape’?• Do you have a copy of your Regional
Climate Change Action Plan?
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4. What support is available?
• RIEP Climate Change support programme
• Regional workshops on mitigation & adaptation
• New ESTACs• Defra funded regional adaptation
projects via RCCP; regional support teams
Key Questions• Have you identified what sources of
help are available in your region?• Do you know what kind of help you
might need?
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5. Further information
• www.sustainabilityeast.org.uk (East of England)• www.climate-em.org.uk (East Midlands)• www.london.gov.uk/lccp/ (London)• www.adaptne.org (North East)• www.climatechangenorthwest.com (North West)• www.climatesoutheast.org.uk (South East)• www.oursouthwest.com/climate/ (South West)• www.sustainabilitywestmidlands.org.uk/wmccp/about (West Midlands)• www.yourclimate.org (Yorkshire and Humber)• www.sccip.org.uk (Scotland)
• UKCIP coordinates a UK wide network of regional coordinators. If you can’t find them from the websites above, please ask [email protected]