Green & blue spaces

Conversations About Resilience: The Manchester Garden

In Green & blue spaces and Nature on 10.06.2019
Contributed by Tina Bugliosi

As the gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show are dismantled and the plants are carefully moved to their new homes, we can look back on a week of conversations about resilience.

Discovering Manchester’s wild side

In Green & blue spaces and Nature on 05.06.2019
Contributed by Ellie Sherlock

Manchester is going wild – and setting the standard for cities all over the United Kingdom.

With its rivers, canals, parks and trees, Manchester is a magnet to all sorts of creatures which go unnoticed by many people living and working there. Urban nature lovers will no longer have to look exclusively to the countryside for their nature kicks, when they realise there is wonderful wildlife bounding all around them.

Groundbreaking IGNITION project gets underway in GM

In Green & blue spaces and Nature on 22.05.2019
Contributed by Tina Bugliosi

Partners across the city-region have signed a multi-million pound European contract for a project which looks to develop innovative ways of financing natural solutions to deliver resilience to increasingly extreme climate hazards.

Plastic Fishing Tour

In Green & blue spaces and Waste on 15.05.2019
Contributed by Mark Turner

On Friday 26th April 2019 environmental campaigning charity Hubbub launched its UK-wide plastic fishing tour at The Quays in Salford.

Five Year Plan - Playing your part

In Buildings, Education, Energy, Food, Green & blue spaces, Health, Housing, Nature, Transport and Waste on 15.05.2019
Contributed by Tina Bugliosi

The Green Summit saw the launch of the 5 Year Environment Plan for Greater Manchester – an ambitious plan setting the action needed to make sure that we make fair contribution to tackling climate change and that we protect and enhance our city region’s natural environment.

Greater Manchester Green Summit 2019 - Five years in seven hours

In Buildings, Economy, Education, Energy, Food, Green & blue spaces, Health, Housing, Living, Transport and Waste on 15.05.2019
Contributed by Tina Bugliosi

In 2018 at the end of the first Greater Manchester Green Summit, Andy Burnham promised the 700+ audience that there would be a second Green Summit, this would launch the region’s pathway to become carbon-neutral. This summit would be bigger, more focused and more inclusive, welcoming more people through the doors to be part of the big plan.

Delivering on the Natural Environment through the 5 Year Environment Plan

In Economy, Green & blue spaces and Nature on 13.03.2019
Contributed by Krista Patrick

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 Mayors Green Summit on 25th March.

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.

Investing in natural environment is good for our economy as well as our health says new report

In Green & blue spaces and Nature on 06.02.2019
Contributed by Krista Patrick

Greater Manchester is developing an innovative Natural Capital Investment Plan – first of its kind for a UK city region
Securing the long-term future of our environment delivers social and financial returns
Plan is a result of last year’s Green Summit and key component of forthcoming five-year environmental plan for Greater Manchester

Mayor of Greater Manchester Green Summit

Mayor of Greater Manchester to announce date for a zero-carbon GM

In Buildings, Economy, Education, Energy, Food, Green & blue spaces, Health, Housing, Nature, Transport and Waste on 18.12.2018
Contributed by Anonymous (not verified)

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has today announced the date for a landmark Green Summit next year.

Bringing the River Irk to Life

In Green & blue spaces and Nature on 18.12.2018
Contributed by Mark Turner

The Environment Agency has initiated the development of a wide-ranging vision for the River Irk which flows through north Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale.

Greater Manchester Green City Region. Creating a greener, greater city region differently