{"id":54552,"date":"2020-08-03T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54552"},"modified":"2020-08-03T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:50:35","slug":"bigger-cuts-for-manchester-in-its-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54552","title":{"rendered":"Bigger cuts for Manchester \u2013 in its annual greenhouse gas emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bigger cuts for Manchester \u2013 in its annual greenhouse gas emissions<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Manchester now needs to make bigger cuts to its annual greenhouse gas emissions: <\/strong>A commentary on Manchester Climate Change Agency\u2019s Annual Report<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A brief Annual Report for 2020<\/a> has been issued by Manchester Climate Change Agency. It is not a long report so we encourage you to read it. However, we make the following comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report is from the Manchester Climate Change Partnership. This is the arms length agency set up, but woefully under-resourced, by Manchester City Council. In principle that distance does give some scope for taking an independent line from the council, but the Partnership also has to keep the council \u201con-side\u201d. For that reason independent critical voices are vital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The introduction to the report refers to a letter<\/a> the Partnership sent to the council. It makes the point that the Covid-19 pandemic gives us the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 opportunity to reimagine the world we live in; the opportunity for citizens\u2019 quality of life, health and wellbeing to become the overriding aim of politicians, business and community leaders; the opportunity to fundamentally reshape the global economy so it acts in the interests of people, planet and profits, and; the opportunity to ensure we can get on track to meet the 1.5-2\u00b0C aim of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We agree. However, the council\u2019s failure to seize the opportunity to put into place emergency and experimental mobility lanes for cyclists and other non-motorised road users, except within the city centre, would seem to indicate a reluctance to really seize the opportunity referred to. We will return to consider why actions are not meeting the scale of the climate challenge below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bigger cuts for Manchester \u2013 in its annual greenhouse gas emissions Manchester now needs to make bigger cuts to its annual greenhouse gas emissions: A commentary on Manchester Climate Change Agency\u2019s Annual Report A brief Annual Report for 2020 has been issued by Manchester Climate Change Agency. It is not a long report so we encourage you to read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,141,1115,16405],"class_list":["post-54552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-steady-state-manchester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54553,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54552\/revisions\/54553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}