Action planning

Participating cities were required to develop an action plan to deliver their targets. Those action plans used the following levers:

• The development of a series of major carbon reduction initiatives across the core cities that have a sound economic case (for example bulk procurement of common opportunities, development of social housing refurbishment projects, city-wide low carbon travel plans, waste strategies, awareness activity etc).

• The development of a low carbon housing plan across each core city (this could include major refurbishment to existing housing, influencing new build developments through planning, commercial energy services for households etc)

• The development of a communication strategy and dissemination of best practice

• The coordination of on-going activities (to make sure that activities going on at a city level are aligned with the overarching Climate Change Strategy and are delivering against the targets set up by that plan). On-going activities include surveys, design advice and technical opportunities assessments.