About °Climate East Midlands

Climate East Midlands brings together a range of organisations that have responsibilities for tackling different aspects of climate change.  Acting collectively means that a more coordinated and coherent approach can be developed, which also adds value to each of our partners' own work. More importantly, it provides a single public face for climate change action in this part of the country and a better service to our customers.

Climate East Midlands staff and partners, May 2010 

We work with a number of sectoral groups to support them in adapting to climate risks and in mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions.

• Local Government sector group (the three city and six county councils)
• Health Sector (East Midlands NHS Sustainable Development Network)
• Private Sector (East Midlands Mayday Network)
• Non Government Organisations (East Midlands Environment Link)
• We also support a number of sub-regional climate change partnerships where district councils and other organisations are represented

Our work is overseen by an Executive Panel currently chaired (on rotation) by Cllr Neil Clarke, Leader of Rushcliffe Borough Council and member champion for climate change for East Midlands Councils and East Midlands Improvement and Efficiency Partnership. This reflects the rise in the importance of local government action in tackling the causes and consequences of climate change at the local level in the context of localism introduced by the Coalition Government.

Our Terms of Reference were updated and approved by our Executive Panel in October 2012.