Environment
Together for Our Planet - New Small Grants Programme
On 1 September, The National Lottery Community Fund will open a new funding programme called Together for Our Planet. Later this year, the UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). Building on interest and excitement for this international conference, this funding programme will help nurture and develop local ideas through this funding and support a legacy of ongoing climate action projects in hundreds of communities across the UK.
Net Zero Carbon 2040 Survey
In 2019, the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, led by the Metro Mayor, Steve Rotheram, declared a climate emergency and set an ambitious target for us to be carbon neutral by 2040. Broadly speaking, this means that the amount of carbon we generate through how we live our lives (e.g. how we heat our homes, travel around etc.) is offset by the amount of carbon we absorb, meaning the overall amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere from our city region is zero.