Regional Action on Climate Change

Mike PeverillRegional Climate Change Coordinator (East Midlands)mike.peverill@emra.gov.uk 07795 060 941

1. Welcome

2. What’s happening at regional level?

3. Who does what?

4. What support is available to local authorities in your region?

5. Further information

Regional Action on Climate Change

2. What’s happening at regional level?

• Regional action sits between LAAs and Climate Change Act (grit in the oyster)

• 100% ND sign up• Regional Climate Change Partnerships

and Coordinators• Regional Plans• Regional knowledge

Key Questions• Do you know your Regional

Coordinator?• Is your Council represented on the

RCCP?• How well networked are you?

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3. Who does what?

Sub-National Review• Regional Assemblies to disappear• New Local Authority Leaders’ Boards • RSS and RES to be replaced by

Regional Strategy• Joint responsibility of RDA and

Leaders’ Board• Climate Change must be included

Key questions• Are you familiar with your current

regional ‘landscape’?• Do you have a copy of your Regional

Climate Change Action Plan?

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4. What support is available?

• RIEP Climate Change support programme

• Regional workshops on mitigation & adaptation

• New ESTACs• Defra funded regional adaptation

projects via RCCP; regional support teams

Key Questions• Have you identified what sources of

help are available in your region?• Do you know what kind of help you

might need?

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5. Further information

• www.sustainabilityeast.org.uk (East of England)• www.climate-em.org.uk (East Midlands)• www.london.gov.uk/lccp/ (London)• www.adaptne.org (North East)• www.climatechangenorthwest.com (North West)• www.climatesoutheast.org.uk (South East)• www.oursouthwest.com/climate/ (South West)• www.sustainabilitywestmidlands.org.uk/wmccp/about (West Midlands)• www.yourclimate.org (Yorkshire and Humber)• www.sccip.org.uk (Scotland)

• UKCIP coordinates a UK wide network of regional coordinators. If you can’t find them from the websites above, please ask diana.calvert@ukcip.org.uk