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Climate Change Risk Assessment Published

The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) 2012 has now been published. It is the first assessment of its kind for the UK and the first in a 5 year...

 
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Economic Impact of Heritage in Yorkshire and the Humber

It is widely accepted and understood that heritage makes a large and extremely important contribution to our sense of place, our quality of life, and certainly the attractiveness of the...

 
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Climate Change Risks for Yorkshire and Humber

To coincide with the publication of the UK CCRA 2012 and given the importance of local adaptation action, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) commissioned the Climate...

 
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Skills for a green economy

This project results from recommendations made in the skills strategy for England, Skills for Sustainable Growth. The work was undertaken with the aims of identifying the skills needed to support...

 
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A plain English guide to the Localism Act - Update

This document describes the main measures of the Localism Act under four headings:

 
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Rural Growth Networks

On 29 December 2011 Defra launched a competition to identify six pilot Rural Growth Networks. Around £15 million is to be invested in the pilots aimed at supporting rural...

 
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Empowering employees to reduce carbon emissions in the office

This month the Carbon Trust launched Carbon Trust Empower™, a web-based tool which engages employees to make practical commitments to save energy in the work place. It provides an interactive...

 
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Green design competition from CO2Sense

You could save thousands of pounds by reviewing your product design. Want £10,000 from CO2Sense to help you to do this? If your new product has an environmental benefit – for example, it...

 
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Inside Parliament: Practical and useful information on how groups can engage with Parliament

Free workshops around the region providing practical and useful information on how groups can engage with Parliament. Many people may not find the work of Parliament interesting, or have negative...

 
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Climate Change Training for Planning Officers

This free training package is designed to enhance the skills planning officers need to take positive action on climate change and increase local authority capacity to tackle causes and effects....

 
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