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.

Have your Say! – My Wild City Survey
The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside has partnered up with Manchester City Council to celebrate and improve the wildlife and wild spaces right on our doorstep as part of a project called My Wild City (you can find out more about the project here).
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Discovering Manchester’s wild side
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.
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Manchester Festival of Nature is here! #MFoN
#MFoN – A Month long celebration of urban nature was kicked off royally by the 130th anniversary of the RSPB celebrations in Didsbury on Saturday.
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Manchester Festival of Nature
On Saturday 29 June 2019 Lancashire Wildlife and Manchester City Council are joining forces with a group of incredible nature organisations to celebrate Manchester’s wonderful wildlife.
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SuDS in the City
In partnership with Green Blue Urban City of Trees are running a freer seminar, SuDS in the City on the morning of July 3rd at the St James Buildings on Oxford Road in Manchester City Centre. Breakfast refreshments will be provided.
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Ground-breaking IGNITION project gets under way
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.
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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