Clean energy and Environmental Resilience
To ensure long term economic resilience and success, West Yorkshire 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.
Programme overview
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.
Projects within this programme
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- Business Sustainability Package
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Project overview
Businesses are facing a significant number of challenges relating to the net zero agenda including:
- The rapid rise in energy and fuel costs and general price instability
- Lack of energy resilience
- Pressure from major customers passing on net zero obligations
- Impending and future legislation impacts
- Consumer pressure on green issues, for example plastics and food miles
- Competing priorities, especially as businesses recover from the impacts of Covid-19 and adjust to leaving the European Union.
Business sustainability support aims to provide simplified, consistent, and impartial support to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within West Yorkshire. It will act as a catalyst to help them to plan for net zero and become climate ready, so they become more resilient to the effects of climate change. Support is designed to help SMEs measure their carbon impacts and climate readiness, plan improvements and act on these plans to reduce their environmental impact.
Project Lead West Yorkshire Combined Authority District/ Area West Yorkshire Business case summary Link here Funding Gainshare - £10.597m
SME match - £9.250mProject Status Activity 6: Delivery Start and end dates April 2023 - March 2026 Delivery partners None Other funders None
Get in touch businesssupport@the-lep.com Last updated Quarter 4 2022/2023
