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| Action Plan |
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| The projects listed in the Communications & Education section of the Action Plan aim to meet the following strategic objective: |
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| "To communicate and educate staff and the wider communities of Warwickshire on their responsibilities and actions required to both adapt to, and limit, the effects of climate change in our county." |
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| The following list details the projects currently running in Warwickshire. We aim to record the progress of these projects every six months. This progress report document (currently under development) will be held on the Partnership home page under Action Plans, where you can also download the full Action Plan. If you know of any other suitable projects being run by local councils, businesses, community groups or schools, please contact us. |
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| 1 Climate Change Adaptation & Biodiversity Conference. Warwickshire, Coventry & Solihull Local Biodiversity Action Plan Annual Conference. Held at BMW Hams Hall, 21st June 2007. |
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| 2 Gathering Good Practice Case Studies from members of the Warwickshire Climate Change Partnership |
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| 3 Development of an Action, Emissions and Reporting System
- Energy and carbon dioxide statistics reporting
- development of a Warwickshire CRed
- Carbon Reduction/Carbon foot-printing project - CRA21E Gang project
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| 4 Development of an Annual Warwickshire Climate Change Award Scheme |
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| 5 Climate Change Training for Warwickshire County Councillors
- Biomass visit to Worcestershire County Hall
- Member screening of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
- Biofuels visit to Silver Group
- Security of Supply Seminar, 26th April 2007
- Renewable Energy Study Tour #3 to Professor Tony Marmont's Farm/Beacon Energy. 13th June 2007
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| 6 Development and Implementation of a Warwickshire Climate Change Communications Strategy
Stakeholder events
- 1st consultation event June 2005
- Launch event 3rd July 2006 (88 delegates)
7 Climate Change Awareness Raising
- 4 x WCC Staff Screenings of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
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| 8 Offsetting Emissions - The promotion of well managed and certified mitigation/adaptation schemes
- development of climate change adaptation scheme to support vulnerable communities in developing countries (Bangladesh and Nepal)
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| 9 Promotion and management of corporate Invest to Save Type Schemes
- WCC Salix/Sustainable Development Fund
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| 10 Skills Mapping/Gap Analysis to identify training requirements to deliver actions
- Warwickshire Sustainable Development in Education strategy development
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| 11 Preparation of an Annual Warwickshire Climate Change Partnership Report
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| 12 Development of energy trails/walks/bike rides/etc
- Development of energy trails
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| 13 Development of Business Opportunities in manufacturing, specifying provision of low carbon technologies
- Business leaders' event, 3rd July 2006, 75 delegates
- AWM/Coverteam working on developing the wind power supply chain
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