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.

Biodiversity Net Gain Explained
Nature and biodiversity are in decline across England. In Greater Manchester, initiatives across the public, private and third sectors are seeking to reverse this and deliver the wider environmental and socio-economic benefits that improving our natural environment can bring.
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Blog: A review of the Greater Manchester Green Summit 2021
Back in person at the Lowry, Salford Quays, the fourth Greater Manchester Green Summit welcomed over 850 attendees and exhibitors.
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IGNITION Hackathon
The IGNITION team are inviting university students, schools and youth groups to take part in a free-to-attend, in-person hackathon event to mark COP26.
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Bee Net Zero
Greater Manchester launches bid to become easiest place in the UK to be a zero carbon business.
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Have your say: Public consultation opens on Places for Everyone joint development plan
Eight-week public consultation begins on 9 August, closing on 3 October. Residents, businesses and local stakeholders asked whether plan meets defined criteria and complies with councils’ duty to cooperate.
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Green light for electric chargers as Greater Manchester’s local energy plan gathers pace
Two hospitals in Greater Manchester have begun a trial of vehicle to grid (V2G) charging points as part of the Greater Manchester Local Energy Market Project (GM LEM).
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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