Resources in the Derbyshire category
Low Carbon Schools (case studies)
This set of case studies was produced for the East Midlands Low Carbon Schools conference on 7th March 2014. The 10 case study schools are a geographical spread across the East Midlands, a mix of primary, secondary and academies and range in age from the old (1940s) to middle age (1970s)...
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Building Business Resilience
This page brings together content related to our Building Business Resilience project, which aims to support businesses to stay in business whatever the weather. This project is being extended in 2013/14, though all the material from 2012/13 is available below.
The project has ...
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Derbyshire Carbon Dioxide Emissions Visualisations
This visualisation below allows you to compare the overall carbon dioxide emissions per capita across each of the districts of Derbyshire. You can also see how the different components of this carbon footprint compare in more detail here - household, transport and industrial & commercial....
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East Midlands Carbon Dioxide emissions visualisations
This visualisation below allows you to compare the overall carbon dioxide emissions per capita across each of the nine cities and counties of the East Midlands. You can also see how the different components of this carbon footprint compare in more detail here - household, transport and...
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Adaptation case studies
This set of adaptation case studies was one of the outputs from the Well Adapting East Midlands project with upper tier local authorities in 2011/12. The aim was to provide a range of examples of how adaptation is being delivered in practice across the East Midlands. They include different...
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Decentralised Energy case studies
Climate East Midlands commissioned the Carbon Trust to run a training programme on Decentralised Energy for local authority planners in 2011/12. This consisted of a series of Masterclasses looking at how different technologies have been utilised in different locations in the East Midlands and...
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Adaptation papers for planners
One of the outputs from the Skills Programme project 'Planning for Adaptation' was a set of Thematic Papers. These are based upon the input and discussion at the different project workshops (Introductory, Locality and Thematic) which were run over autumn - winter 2011/12 by the UK...
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Building Business Resilience in the Midlands
Climate East Midlands, with our counterparts Sustainability West Midlands, have completed a survey of SMEs across the Midlands. The survey is part of an Environment Agency-funded project to build business resilience to climate change.
The survey aimed to establish: how businesses have been...
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Planning for Climate Change - new national guidance
This new national guidance, published on 25/4/2012 by the Town and Country Planning Asociation on behalf of the Planning and Climate Change Coalition guidance updates the earlier guide published in 2010 which itself was based on the draft Planning Policy Statement (PPS) on climate and...
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Power to the People event resources
A concluding half day event for the Community Skills for Climate Change project was held on Saturday 17th March in Langley Mill, hosted by Groundwork, who managed the whole project on behalf of Climate East Midlands. Around 40 people took part, including members of the eight community projects&...
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Carbon Trust Empower - making energy savings in your office
Empower is designed to empower employees to make energy savings in their office. Through tutorials, virtual tours, a quiz, and other interactive elements, Empower will help raise staff awareness of carbon and cost-saving opportunities, as well as encourage people to make a contribution, and a...
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Vantage Point modelling scenarios
This resource contains 4 reports at the regional level, with data disaggregated at sub-regional level for 4 scenarios modelled for the period 2020, 2035, and 2050:
- investigating the impact of the Low Carbon Transition plan, based on current national policy
- maximal use of biomass. ..
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Planning for Hydropower: Planning Advice
Planning for Hydropower: Planning Advice has been produced by AMEC on behalf of Climate East Midlands, as part of the East Midlands Skills Programme, and is jointly funded by the Environment Agency. It is intended to help local planning authorities, the Environment Agency, developers and...
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Planningforclimatechange
An online resource for local communities to use to help them make informed decisions and have meaningful input in to planning consultations is posted on www.planningforclimatechange.org.uk . The resources contains planning news, information about how the planning system works, a...
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Communities case studies
Growing Climate Friendly Communities Grant enabled eight succesful projects to be delivered, as follows:
The full case studies can be downloaded at the bottom of the page
Greening Beeston: the project has enabled feasibility studies to be carried out to select a suitable community building...
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East Midlands Information Pack 2012 (UK CCRA)
The UK CCRA
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 cycle. It provides underpinning evidence that can be used by Government to help inform priorities for action and appropriate...
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UK CCRA Methodology
An explanation of the methodology used to assess the risks, in the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2012.
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Renewable Heating Technologies
The slides from the Sustainability West Midlands event, held on Friday 18 November can be downloaded here. The event was funded by Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands. The slides contain case studies and information on
- Available technologies. ..
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Planning for Climate Change - Community Events
Following the launch of the online resource, a series of free one-day workshops for community groups, individuals, councillors and planners with an interest in local planning and climate change have been held across the East Midlands.
The events featured a speakers with a wide...
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Map of the Derwent catchment
This map shows the the Derwent catchment showing locations of barriers on rivers and local planning authority boundaries. This will be the main area of study for the East Midlands hydropower project.
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