Workstream #4 - Actions for the Council
Workstream 4: Climate adaptation, carbon storage and carbon sequestration – Action 4.1
Owner: City Policy; Neighbourhoods
Project Cost or Funding in Place: Yes via Horizon 2020
Annual Carbon Saving (tCO2): No but adaptation benefits
- We want to deliver: The Manchester Tree Action Plan
- We want to achieve: A target of net 1,000 new trees, 1,000 new hedge trees and 4 community orchards a year on known schemes on public or partner land. Investigate opportunities for planting in parks, Council owned open spaces, highways and the grounds of buildings.
- By: Ongoing
Workstream 4: Climate adaptation, carbon storage and carbon sequestration – Action 4.2
Owner: City Policy
Project Cost or Funding in Place: Council Funding identified
Annual Carbon Saving (tCO2): No
- We want to deliver: Complete the Horizon 2020 Grow Green Project and the new ‘sponge’ park in West Gorton to and use the learning to inform green and blue infrastructure across the city.
- We want to achieve: Encourage nature based solutions to be embedded in open spaces, highways schemes and new residential and commercial developments to improve resilience to flood risk.
- By: Ongoing