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Figures:
• 2011 Population: 694,900 (Northamptonshire County Council, 2014)
• Area: 2,364 km2 (World Route Planner, 2014)
• Land Area Of East Midlands (%): 14%

• Carbon Dioxide Emissions 2005: 9.7 tonnes per capita (DECC, 2014)
• Carbon Dioxide Emissions 2012: 8.0 tonnes per capita (DECC, 2014)

• Local Carbon Dioxide Emissions Under The Influence Of Local Authorities 2005: 6366.6 kt CO2 (DECC, 2014)
• Local Carbon Dioxide Emissions Under The Influence Of Local Authorities 2012: 5614.9 kt CO2 (DECC, 2014)

• Key Climate Risks: Flooding from rivers and Surface water flooding

• Northamptonshire’s Climate Change Strategy 2010 – 2014

• Northamptonshire Climate Change Officer Group (NCCOG)

Have a look at the News and Resources tabs to see the work Climate East Midlands does to support local action.

Northamptonshire Flood Toolkit

23rd March 2015

Northamptonshire County Council has launched an online toolkit to assist communities, individuals, land owners, businesses and flood risk management authorities with improving county-wide flood resilience.

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The storage lake with a tree trunk laid across the stream

Case Study: business resilience at the Granary Hotel

17th December 2014

Climate East Midlands has published a new business resilience case study, focusing on the Granary Hotel near Daventry in Northamptonshire, and what they have done to reduce flood risk to their premises.

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Soil management for resilient farm businesses in Northants

2nd May 2014

Climate East Midlands teamed up with Northamptonshire County Council and the NFU to deliver a half-day soil management workshop for farmers in Northamptonshire, on 30th April 2014. The workshop built on the success of our soil management workshops held last August in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire. The Northants workshop combined presentations with in-field demonstrations of soil structure using soil pits.

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Business resilience in Corby and Derby

4th February 2014

Towards the end of January 2014, Climate East Midlands ran two further business resilience workshops in Corby and Derby. Blasts of severe weather have become the norm for our resilience workshops: in Corby we had heavy rain and in Derby we had snow. Both workshops received positive feedback and the participating businesses left with a better understanding of how they could act to increase their resilience to severe weather and climate change.

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Work underway to reduce flood risk on the Fawsley estate

Business resilience in Daventry

18th November 2013

On 14th November 2013, Climate East Midlands engaged businesses in the Daventry area on resilience to severe weather and climate change. The workshop was held at The Granary Hotel on the beautiful Fawsley Estate, just south of Daventry. The workshop was delivered in partnership with Northamptonshire County Council and Northamptonshire Enterprise Partnership, and included speakers from the Environment Agency and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

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Greener Northants - website launched

21st October 2013

The Greener Northants website is a partnership website designed to bring together the wide range of environmental projects, news and events going on in Northamptonshire. It was launched on 9th October 2013 at the Northamptonshire Local Nature Partnership’s inaugural annual conference.

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Case Studies highlight resilience

2nd October 2012

A set of nine case studies is published today which illustrate how local authorities across the East Midlands are adapting to the changing climate, during this year of weather extremes. Every city and county in the region is featured in the set and the geographical differences highlight the different climate risks that are faced by urban, rural, upland and coastal areas. This new resource is one of the outputs from the £950k East Midlands Climate Change Skills Programme, supported by East Midlands Improvement and Efficiency Partnership.

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The iCon beacon of sustainability in Daventry

1st September 2011

The University of Northampton’s new iCon Environmental Innovation Centre in Daventry is a beacon for environmental innovation in the UK and beyond. The iCon has achieved an ‘excellent’ rating from BREEAM, the leading assessment method for the environmental performance of buildings. The building has also received two design awards, in 2010 a Green Apple Award for the Built Environment and in 2009 the Milton Keynes-South Midlands Excellence Award.

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