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Green Summit 2019, March 25, The Lowry
We face major environmental challenges that threaten the health and prosperity of our region. Greater Manchester is taking action with the 5-Year Environment Plan, to be launched at the Green Summit.
The plan sets out our long-term environmental vision – to be carbon neutral by 2038 – and the urgent actions we all need to take in the next 5 years to help achieve this.
It is the outcome 12-months consultation and collaboration with all parts of the Greater Manchester family and the Summit is an opportunity to galvanise this commitment and unify our actions.
You can rewatch the Green Summit using the videos below.
Morning session
Afternoon session
Green Poems
5-Year Environment Plan
Our environment in Greater Manchester underpins all aspects of our daily lives. We face urgent and significant environmental challenges in Greater Manchester. They require us all to take action now. Our 5-Year Environment Plan sets out the urgent actions all of us need to take over the next five years. The plan focusses on the key parts of our daily lives where action is required and a small set of key priorities within each of those areas, where we need to take action over the next 5 years and beyond to achieve our aims.
Springboard Report
Ambitious plans to make Greater Manchester one of the leading green city-regions in the UK and Europe were approved on 27 July 2018. Following on from the Mayor's Green Summit, held in March 2018, the report acted as a springboard for our environmental ambitions and the five-year plan.