Greater Manchester Sustainable Business Partnership: Leading the Way to a Greener Future

1. The Greater Manchester Sustainable Business Partnership will collaborate together, in partnership with others and individuals, to deliver meaningful change in the city-region over the next five years to support our environmental vision. The partnership will demonstrate leadership by focusing on new and innovative actions that support both Greater Manchester’s ambitions and their own business plans, which can best be accelerated by working in partnership with the rest of the city-region.

2. To work together towards a shared vision of eradicating avoidable single-use plastics from catering, labs and stationery across Greater Manchester Universities, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Further Education Colleges by 2022. This is part of a wider commitment to lead the way on sustainability and achieve carbon neutral campuses across Greater Manchester by 2038.

3. Offer • Building new homes at zero carbon in advance of 2028 target in GM Spatial Strategy • Achieving minimum “C” SAP rating for all our existing homes • Planning for a post-gas economy for new and replacement heating systems • Developing a shared procurement framework for electric vehicles • Ask • Homes England to commit additional grant to deliver zero carbon homes • Government grants powers and funding to GMCA to create “new Green Deal” • Government support to scale up local renewable energy generation • Upgrading existing electricity infrastructure to facilitate renewable energy generation at scale • Investment in alternative heating systems and funding mechanisms to replace individual gas boilers

4. Sustainability first As a climate-conscious partnership of organisations co-located in First Street in the heart of Manchester City Centre, we pledge to: Use our cross-sector knowledge to educate and engage businesses and employees in our local community;Reduce carbon emissions on our estate by working collaboratively and innovatively; Drive action in alignment with Greater Manchester’s Zero Carbon 2038 target; and Act as a model for change, inspiring others across GM to follow suit.

5. To train 5,000 people from Greater Manchester in the coming year

6. The University of Manchester believes that all organisations and residents in Manchester need to be part of a collective effort to meet our targets and commits to contribute by: • Acting now, including accelerating our existing decarbonisation activities, wherever possible. • Taking responsibility for the CO2 emissions from our business activities and working to reduce them to zero by 2038. • Supporting and influencing our customers, residents, suppliers and other stakeholders to take action. • Defining the support we need and proactively asking for it, including asking politicians for policy changes wherever relevant.

7. MEEN - aiming to GROW Keeping our carbon Footprint LOW “SAVE OUR SOILS”

8. Bruntwood Net Zero By 2030

9. Meeting and going beyond the national carbon reduction targets set out in the NHS Long Term Plan which include: • By 2020, reduce the NHS’ carbon footprint by a third from 2007 levels and work to deliver the Climate Change Act target by 51% by 2025. • Cut business mileage by 20% by 2023/24 and working to build a low-emission NHS fleet. • Engage and Empower our Staff/Patients/Communities to take action.  The GMHSCP will work to meaningfully engage patients and communities to take environmental action, including through environmentally friendly health and care choices.  • Work with our partners and stakeholders to support environmental action.

10. To become the greenest Chamber of Commerce by both action and influence by the end of the five-year plan. • We support the following principles: • Decarbonisation • Ambition and the “right things to do” • GM environmental policy must grow the City Region economy • Launch large-scale resource efficiency programme • Behavioral change • Clear and consistent policy focus at Greater Manchesterlevel • Act now for meaningful change • Equal prominence and support for simple, low-cost options

11. To increase our use of public transport and active travel modes; to replace the most polluting vehicles in our fleet; to manage our waste as sustainably as possible; to reduce unnecessary food waste and to eradicate single-use plastics.

12. To target investment of £20m across Greater Manchester over the next five years into: • Social enterprise business growth delivering positive impacts on the 5 environmental challenges, from Resonance North West SITR Fund • Communities creating low carbon, community-led housing, renewable energy generation, and sports & leisure facilities from Resonance Community Developers