To ensure long term economic resilience and success, the City Region needs to plan for and manage future climate change impacts. Green Infrastructure can assist with this and help to attract and retain investment, skilled people and tourism.
We will apply a low carbon and sustainable approach in everything we do. As a leader in low carbon, we will exploit new economic opportunities with potentially huge global market opportunities. Our businesses will be highly efficient in their use of energy and resources, allowing them to de-couple growth from carbon emissions and pollution.
Poor air quality and fuel poverty will be a thing of the past – homes will be well-insulated, while efficient energy generation, usage and smart networks will ensure everyone is actively in control of their energy consumption. We will not just have maintained and enhanced our already beautiful landscape, but will have found innovative new ways to work with it.
As a result of a successful £2 million bid to the Government’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV), West Yorkshire Combined Authority and its partner local authorities - Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield Councils are installing 88 rapid vehicle charging points across West Yorkshire
This project aims to reduce the amount of NOx by retrofitting accredited emission control technology onto 470 older buses across West Yorkshire, to significantly improve tailpipe emissions
Our Leeds City Region Warm Homes programme will help more than 700 households across the City Region lower their fuel bills and keep their homes warm
We’ve helped over 1,440 households across the Leeds City Region lower their energy bills and heat their homes more efficiently through our Growth Deal-funded Tackling Fuel Poverty Programme
The Leeds PIPES district heat network, which will benefit from £4 million from Leeds City Region Growth Deal funding, will bring low carbon, lower cost heating and hot water to the city of Leeds, while also cutting 22,000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year
The LEP’s Energy Accelerator is an innovative programme designed to help low carbon and energy efficient projects become a reality where they may otherwise not have been completed due to a lack of capacity, expertise and funding.
We provide advice and grants of up to £10,000 to small and medium-sized businesses in Leeds City Region (not Barnsley) to help them lower their carbon footprint, energy use and water and waste costs
The Combined Authority is working with nine housing associations across West Yorkshire to help improve energy efficiency in homes
The pilot project will help deliver the Mayor’s pledges to tackle the climate emergency and improve skills and training
The equivalent of 4,900 football pitches of trees could be planted over the next four years.
The meeting was part of the Mayor’s ongoing commitment to tackle the climate and environment emergency.
Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, will attend the crucial UN climate summit in Glasgow
Ahead of COP26, the Mayor has set out her vision for a net zero carbon West Yorkshire by 2038.