Manchester’s Labour environment lead Mandie Shilton Godwin has said the city is not cutting emissions quickly enough as councillors examined a proposed £100 million climate-project pipeline.
The Manchester Climate Ready report went before the council’s environment scrutiny committee on 6 October. It said the pace and scale of activity must increase if the city is to meet its 2038 zero-carbon target.
The proposed £100 million pipeline is not a single confirmed funding award. It would assemble projects supported by a mixture of sources, potentially including government and Great British Energy, from about £1 billion of schemes being assessed.
The wider plan envisages more than 50,000 heat pumps and energy-efficiency improvements to nearly 80,000 homes by 2030, alongside increased public-transport, walking and cycling use.
Manchester’s emissions have fallen by 50 per cent since 2005 but by only 23 per cent since the city adopted its 2038 target. The report said the planned reduction over that later period had been 55 per cent.
Shilton Godwin told the committee that Manchester was “not decarbonising at the pace that we need to”, with 2024 emissions of 1.74 million tonnes reported as nearly twice the city’s carbon-budget target for that year.
