Best Foot Forward were commissioned to provide, amongst other outputs, baseline regional energy use and carbon emissions data for the East Midlands region.

Download East Midlands Carbon Footprint - Determining Baseline Energy Consumption Data

Click here to view or download the Climate Change video (11.4MB WMV). This is a Windows Media Video, please click on the link to view it or right-click and select 'save target as..' to save it to you computer.

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The Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change

This voluntary, high level statement of local government commitment was launched in the East Midlands in 2000 by Nottingham City Council and then revised and relaunched in 2005 with the backing of a group of key national agencies who came together as the Nottingham Declaration Partnership. The Partnership aims to broaden and deepen local government commitment to climate change by encouraging more councils to sign up and by providing support and guidance to those which have made a commitment. By 2008 the number of signatories had grown to almost 300. The Declaration itself, the signatory list and free guidance is online at: www.nottinghamdeclaration.org.uk

By June 2007, the East Midlands became the first English region to have all 46 of its local authorities publicly committed to tackling climate change by becoming signatories to the Nottingham Declaration, thanks in part to the influence of regional bodies. A number of the signatories in the region have gone on to develop their own climate change plans and initiatives. Following this success, efforts are now underway to roll out new versions of the Declaration for other sectors.

The Nottingham Declaration for Schools

The latest version of the Declaration is for schools and has been developed by education and environment professionals in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire where there is a long history of environmental education.As centres of learning, schools are ideally placed to facilitate local action on climate change by extending the commitment of a council out to a neighbourhood level and engaging with staff, young people and their families. A number of stakeholders are currently being consulted to see whether this version could work in the same way as the original.

The Regional Assembly's Promoting Sustainable Development Group undertook a project on sustainable design and construction as part of its work on climate change. In July 2004, ARUP consultants undertook Phase I of the project which included a review of international, national and regional good practice with a more detailed evaluation of eight regional examples to highlight the costs and benefits of incorporating sustainable design techniques and features. The report by ARUP consultants can be viewed by clicking here:

'Sustainable Design and Construction – Final Report’

In 2005, EMRA ran a Sustainable Design and Construction competition. The website designed to support those entering the competition contains useful information for building design teams - www.emra.gov.uk/competition

An update of the report on ‘The Potential Impact of Climate Change in the East Midlands was published in July 2000 and updated in April 2004.

Download the Final Report

The July 2000 Study Technical and Summary reports are available on the UK Climate Impacts Programme website.

The Potential Impact of Climate Change in the East Midlands – Update Report 570KB PDF

This statement from English Heritage sets out current thinking on the implications of climate change for the historic environment. It is aimed at all those involved in the scientific and technical aspects of climate change and those undertaking impact, risk and adaptation studies.

Download Climate Change and the Historic Environment