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Highland Adapts: Regional Adaptation Partnership
Bringing Highland together to facilitate transformational action towards a climate-ready region.
Highland
Flooding & drought
Food security & supply
Health & wellbeing
Built Environment
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Save Our Shropshire
Inspiring people to change their behaviour, to help tackle climate change.
Shropshire
Carbon emissions
Food security & supply
Health & wellbeing
Built Environment
Energy
Transport
Reading Zero Carbon Housing Developments
Ensuring big housing developments aim for zero carbon.
Reading
East Sussex Warm Homes Check
Tackling fuel poverty with warm homes support for owners and renters.
Hastings
GMCA Smart Energy Plan
Boosting jobs, improving housing and lowering emissions through an integrated Smart Energy Plan.
Bolton
Carbon emissions
Greater fairness
Targeted Climate Adaptation For The Most Vulnerable
Understanding where people are facing social deprivation and are most vulnerable to climate threats.
Dundee City
Greater fairness
Health & wellbeing
Think big locally
Carbon emissions from the energy use in our buildings account for over one-fifth of the annual total in the UK. Being economical and efficient with our energy is one of the quickest actions we can take to turn things around. From the raw materials and energy consumed in construction, to changing people’s habits through better design of buildings, the opportunity is to reimagine our built environment and how we build it – so that more of our buildings help us conserve more of our resources. We shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us.
Blue Green City Of The Future
The Living With Water partnership is working with the people of Hull to protect the city and wider area from flooding, putting resilience and community regeneration at the heart of everything they do.
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Project Drawdown
Reducing carbon emissions from anaesthetic gases.
Bridgend
Air pollution
Carbon emissions
Waste
Delivering Net Zero
Helping social landlords to build new affordable zero carbon homes.
UK
Carbon emissions
Health & wellbeing
Tech & Innovation
Built Environment
Circular Economy
Energy
Solcer House: Affordable Energy Positive Housing
Providing a template for affordable energy positive housing.
Bridgend
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Built Environment
Circular Economy
Energy
City of York Passivhaus Homes
Building Passivhaus homes, with properties warmed and powered without generating carbon emissions.
York
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Greater fairness
Built Environment
Biodiversity & Nature
Energy
Our Health Meadow
Designing and developing a flagship therapeutic healthcare facility with the community.
Vale of Glamorgan
Carbon emissions
Health & wellbeing
Built Environment
Biodiversity & Nature
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Climania - the Climate Action Board Game
Educating, engaging and advocating for built environment climate adaptation and mitigation.
Birmingham
Carbon emissions
Greater fairness
Tech & Innovation
Engaging our communities to improve their carbon footprint
Engaging and empowering the community to improve the carbon footprint of the borough
Cheshire East
Carbon emissions
Excessive consumption
Tech & Innovation
Built Environment
Circular Economy
Energy
Net Zero Carbon Toolkit
Helping new and existing buildings reach net zero.
West Oxfordshire
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Crawley Council Net-Zero Retrofit
Installing bespoke retrofit solutions to achieve net-zero performance in Crawley Homes properties.
Crawley
Carbon emissions
Health & wellbeing
Tech & Innovation
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)
Providing the skills and knowledge to help people address the biodiversity and climate crisis.
Powys
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation
Built Environment
Biodiversity & Nature
Warmer Sussex
Providing a one-stop home retrofitting service to the people of Sussex.
Mid Sussex
Air pollution
Carbon emissions
Design and Installation of Solar PV
Designing and installing renewable energy systems for homes, businesses, and the wider community.
Windsor and Maidenhead
Carbon emissions
Tech & Innovation