Manchester Climate Ready and In Our Nature
Manchester Climate Ready is the lead partner of the In Our Nature programme.
MCR is responsible for overseeing and championing climate action in Manchester, which as a city has committed to become zero carbon by 2038 at the latest. This commitment is 12 years ahead of the legal requirement for the UK to become zero carbon by 2050 – part of the Paris Agreement.
Manchester was the world's first industrial city, the birthplace of the industrial revolution.
The early 19th century saw the transformation of Manchester from a small market town into the booming ‘Cottonopolis’; a city dominated by towering cotton mills, crowded warehouses, and coal-fired chimneys spewing great plumes of black smoke into the sky.
Manchester became a hive of activity, a heady concoction of opportunity, invention and creativity whirring at a pace like never before. But it came at a cost, the worker bees were being smoked out, the climate was changing.
Manchester and the climate movement, a timeline:
“If we act now, we can still secure a liveable sustainable future for all.”
- Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC
Taking urgent action on climate change
Manchester Climate Ready:
Produce The Plan, the city’s high level strategy for how, as a city, we’ll tackle both the causes of climate change and the impacts we’re already facing.
Monitor and report on Manchester’s progress towards zero carbon.
And provide independent expertise to help accelerate change, champion the delivery of effective climate action, engage and influence stakeholders and communities to act, and seek to establish Manchester as a world class city for action on climate change.
For Manchester to achieve zero carbon we need everyone to play their part – this is where the In Our Nature programme comes in.
