News and Events
Helping to make Greater Manchester a world-leading Green City Region is our priority. Our environment underpins all aspects of our daily lives. We face urgent and significant challenges presented by a changing climate that require us all to take action now if we are to achieve our goal of carbon-neutrality by 2038.

GM Walking Festival 2019
TfGM and the GM Moving team are back with the fifth Greater Manchester Walking Festival this May.
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City Nature Challenge 2019
This year, the City Nature Challenge, a worldwide recording event, comes to Greater Manchester.
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Wilder Future Campaign
The Wildlife Trusts Wilder Future campaign is about building support for new laws that not only protect wildlife but help to put it into recovery. It is also about people taking individual action where they live, putting wildlife back on the map.
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How do we deliver a greener city region?
The purpose of the ‘Place Listening Event’ is to adopt blue-sky thinking to explore innovative solutions for developing a greener city-region across Greater Manchester.
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Investing in a greener Greater Manchester
As part of the Mayor’s upcoming Green Summit, a recently held ‘listening event’ for the business community found that Greater Manchester has the potential to be the UK’s leading green city region.
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Natural Capital Group Annual Conference 2018
Over 70 delegates attended Greater Manchester’s Natural Capital Annual Conference to discuss the opportunities and benefits around connecting people with nature.
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See our upcoming events below.
Latest Past Events
Green Summit: Closing remarks
Lyric AuditoriumAndy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester.
Green Summit: In Conversation with the Mayor – How we can engage and motivate young people and communities on the environment through social media?
Lyric AuditoriumAndy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester in conversation with Jason Williams, The Cloud Gardener