Since 2001 Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber has worked with
regional and national partners to manage climate change, reduce carbon
omissions and adapt to a changing climate.
Information on national work to reduce green house gas emissions can be
found on Department for
Energy and Climate Change website. This includes regular updates on
greenhouse gas emissions from the region. The
revised
2005–2007 figures can be found at here.
Regional Climate Change Partnership
The Yorkshire and Humber Climate Change Partnership brings together the key
agencies across the region to drive forward our work to tackle to cause and
effect of climate change. The Group launched Yorkshire and Humber’s
Climate Change Action Plan ‘Your Climate’, the first of its
kind, in 2005.
In March 2009 the revised Regional Climate Change Plan and Regional
Adaptation Study was launched. The Regional Climate Change Plan sets a
strategic direction for managing and combating climate change in the
Yorkshire and Humber region over the next five years (2009-14). It is the
responsibility of the Climate Change Partnership to take forward delivery
of the Climate Change Plan including integrating the key adaptation work
arising from the Regional Adaptation Study.
Your Climate
Website
To see how this region is already contributing to the move to a low-carbon
economy and preparing to deal with the impacts of a changing climate please
look at the region's climate change website www.yourclimate.org.
This site includes the Action Plan documents and by being updated on a
regular basis it continues to support the plan by providing up to date
information, progress reports and links to key resources. This site
should be your first port of call for regional climate change issues and
a guide to dealing with them locally.
Local Area Climate Change Network
GOYH work closely with Local Government Yorkshire and the Humber and other
partners to run a network of local authority and LSP members from across
the region, keeping them informed of policy developments and agreeing
actions on key issues in the region.
This group also feeds into the RIEP funded Climate Change Programme.
Detailed support for Local Areas on both mitigation and adaptation to
climate change can be found at the Nottingham Declaration website.
You can become a member of a wider group receiving regular updates and
newsletters on regional and national issues email: yhclimatechange@goyh.gsi.gov.uk
