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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.

Healing in Nature: Sow the City’s Green Health Walk at Prestwich Hospital
Jon Ross, Founder of Sow the City, reports on the development of the organisation’s new Green Health Walk at Prestwich Hospital in Bury. Sow the City provides nature-based activities and horticultural therapy.
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Greater Manchester Confirmed as Pilot to Help Recovery of England’s Nature and Wildlife
Greater Manchester Combined Authority has been chosen by the government today as a trailblazer helping to kick-start moves to recover nature across England.
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Greater Manchester Goes Green – Green Summit 2020: doing things differently this year
We are delighted to announce that for a third consecutive year, GMCA will be hosting Green Summit 2020 – “Greater Manchester Goes Green”.
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Bringing everyone with you: In Conversation with Clean Air Ltd
Will Perrott, MD of Bolton manufacturer Clean Air Ltd, explains how his idea for an in-house ‘environmental committee’ has sparked a company-wide movement to become carbon neutral.
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New online hub of nature-inspired resources launched for families
Environmental charity City of Trees is hoping to inspire children to get out and about in Greater Manchester’s great outdoors with free family activity ideas available to download ahead of the school summer holidays
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IGNITION Park Survey
Imagine a greener Greater Manchester. A place that works with nature and where the urban landscape is filled with rain gardens, street trees, green roofs, walls and spaces. That’s the idea behind IGNITION, a partnership project that aims to create a greener, healthier and more climate resilient future for us all.
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