North West Improvement and Efficiency Partnership

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This is a two year programme of support (with potential for an extra year extension), for North West Local Authorities and LSPs in tackling climate change through reducing carbon dioxide emissions from their estate and communities.

The programme particularly provides support for Local Area Agreement areas, primarily on the implementation and progression of National Indicators 185 and 186, but there may also be opportunities to assist with NI188 on adaptation.

This proposal is a draft and is subject to detailed consultation on the design of the programme with LSPs, Local Authorities, Sub-Regional Partnerships and national support organisations such as I&DEA.

The North West Climate Change Partnership will lead delivery of the programme through the Northwest Climate Change Unit, in partnership with the sub-regions and key regional organisations (Energy Savings Trust and Carbon Trust).  The North West Regional Assembly (and successor Leaders Forum) will be the lead organisation for the Climate Change Unit.

A co-ordinator will be appointed to coordinate support to LAA Areas acting on NI 185 and/or 186, and encourage uptake amongst those LAA Areas that have not.  They will be the first point of contact for LSPs in developing action on climate change through coordinating existing activities of support organisations regionally and nationally (Carbon Trust, Energy Savings Trust, and I&DeA), and through providing additional support where gaps are identified.

This co-ordination function would greatly assist the flow of information, advice and support to the local areas and feed back of information needs and learning, maintain the networks, and manage the tendering of the other projects. They will be employed by the North West Regional Assembly (and successor Leaders Forum body), and will work closely on a secondment basis with the Climate Change Unit to ensure linkages with the Regional Climate Change Action Plan and partner organisations.

This will include support for NI185, 186 and all local authority carbon reduction programmes.

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