BRAVE NEW WORLD

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BRAVE NEW WORLD?

• Jon Lovell
• Sustainable Development Manager
• North West Regional Assembly

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The lens to our future
HM Government, 2005
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• Today's problems cannot be solved if we still
  think the way we thought when we created them
• Albert Einstein

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The Energy Challenge

• Facing up to climate change
• Securing stable and affordable energy supplies
• Advancing the environmental economy
• Empowering behavioural change

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The Regional Response
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The Regional Response
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The Energy Hierarchy
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Regional Spatial Strategy

• Statutory plan
• Seeks to actively facilitate demand reduction and
  efficiency improvements through LDFs
• 10 of supply from renewable sources by 2010,
  rising to at least 15 by 2015 and 20 by 2020
• Support the construction of well-designed
  renewable energy developments
• www.gos.gov.uk/gonw/Planning/RegionalPlanning/

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North West Sustainable Energy Strategy

• Encourage businesses, authorities and communities
  to take energy issues seriously
• Provide examples of best practice and sources of
  information for further assistance
• Offer suggestions to key target groups
• Implementation through RSS and the Climate Change
  Action Plan

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The Regional Response
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The Regional Response
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The Carbon Connection
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The Carbon Connection

• A new database, connecting sustainable energy
  people and showcasing climate change solutions in
  Englands Northwest.
• Fully-searchable and free
• Helping the region to harness the economic
  potential of the energy and climate challenge
• www.carbonconnection-nw.info

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Getting The Governance Right

• Breaking out from the process cycle
• Stand up and be counted
• Englands Northwest a brave new world?

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• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did
  nothing because he could only do a little
• Edmund Burke

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• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did
  nothing because he could only do a little
• Edmund Burke
• THANK YOU
• jon.lovell_at_nwra.gov.uk