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DECLARATION: CLIMATE EMERGENCY AMBITION: NET-ZERO CARBON BY 2040 Climate change is the biggest threat we face globally and we will do everything in our power to make a difference at a local level. LCRCA Metro-Mayor Steve Rotheram
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“Climate change is the biggest threat we face globally and we will do everything in
- ur power to make a difference at a local
level.”
LCRCA Metro-Mayor Steve Rotheram
DECLARATION: CLIMATE EMERGENCY AMBITION: NET-ZERO CARBON BY 2040
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Challenge: How might LCR grow the local economy whilst reducing its ecological footprint?
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- What are the
challenges?
- What is the UK doing to
tackle the crisis and is it enough?
- What is being done in
Liverpool City Region?
- How can we scale and
accelerate our efforts?
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GLOBAL WARMING BIODIVERSITY AIR QUALITY CIRCULAR ECONOMY
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LOCAL INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Clean Growth
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A JOB WELL BEGUN
Wind, Tidal, Hydrogen Power Clean Air Strategies Brownfield First Circular Economy Club Climate Adaptation and Justice
Declared Climate Emergency, Target of net zero- carbon by 2040, Climate Action Plan
Greenways Clean Public Transport
LCR Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory (LCEI) and the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation (CGE)
Nature Based Solutions
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UK POLICY CONTEXT
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UK POLICY CONTEXT
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To tackle the climate and ecological crisis effectively, there needs to be a deeper systemic reform to the prevailing political-economic model – in the form of a UK social contract for sustainability and a just transition – in which devolution and empowered city regions must play a central role
Heseltine Institute Provocation
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UK Social contract for sustainability and a just transition
- Government led
Pro-clean and inclusive growth Pro-diverse economies Pro-devolution
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Our role: No one is too small to make a difference
- In the context of Brexit, we will help make
the case for national public policies which will assist LCR achieve net zero-carbon by 2040
- We will help make the case for devolution
and Green City-Deals
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- We
will bring provocations, ideas, resources and good practice examples to the public square to enrich the local conversation
- We will help provide data and an evidence
base to undergird policies for clean growth
Our role: No one is too small to make a difference
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Copies of this presentation and the Issues Paper upon which it is based can be obtained at: Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place University of Liverpool 1-7 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WY. Web: www.liverpool.ac.uk/heseltine-institute. Email: heseltine@liverpool.ac.uk. Tel: +44 (0)151 795 2485.