Eco heat pumps, solar panels and LED lights will be installed on buildings across Manchester as part of a £6m investment to cut carbon emissions. Manchester council has secured £4.9m in government grants for further work to cut carbon emissions from more council-owned buildings across the city.
A further contribution of £1m from the council will take the total investment into seven buildings - including the National Football Museum - to almost £6m. It comes as the local authority aims to halve its direct carbon emissions by 2025 and works towards making the city net zero carbon no later than 2038.
The town hall has been cutting its own emissions, but Manchester is still some way off its target of becoming a completely net zero city in the next 16 years. The council's carbon emission calculations also exclude those associated with the Manchester Airports Group which the local authority has a 35.5 pc stake in.
