Tackling the climate change challenge

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says Walsall is set to be at the forefront of the Green Industrial Revolution, after plans were unveiled to provide energy to local homes from a pioneering ‘waste to energy’ plant.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says a £1 million plan aims to make air quality cleaner and safer.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says Solihull is joining the ‘retrofit’ revolution - making older homes warmer and more eco-friendly while helping residents cut their energy bills.

As the defining issue of our time, we face tremendously tough decisions on how to tackle climate change. As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, we have worked hard to ensure the Black Country and the wider West Midlands is at the forefront of the green revolution.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says a grant to a Solihull community project will help protect historically and environmentally significant Parkland.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says designs for a Sprint rapid bus route in Walsall will now avoid the need to cut down trees on the A34 Birmingham Road.

Everyone wants to live in a healthier, happier, greener world – and one of the ways to help achieve that goal is quite simply to plant more trees.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street is urging Walsall community groups to get involved in a grant scheme which has already seen £500,000 given out to fund projects that improve the natural environment in local neighbourhoods.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says an award-winning sensory garden created for veterans in Solihull, is a ‘brilliant example of the community caring for local green spaces.’

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street is urging Solihull residents to ensure they claim Government help towards the cost of their energy bills.

Figures show 125,000 vouchers from the Government’s Energy Bill Support Scheme issued to residents with prepayment meters have yet to be claimed.