A guide to the process, successes, and lessons learned from an innovative local public sector carbon management partnership.

Over the last 2 years the Cheshire & Warrington Public Sector Carbon Management Programme (CMP) has joined up work across 24 public sector organisations (with a combined workforce of over 100,000 people), including Local Authorities, Police, Fire and Rescue Service, Health Agencies and Universities and Colleges.

Collaborative work has been undertaken to deliver savings through environmental management of energy, water, transport and waste, and to address key issues with the potential to impact on carbon management, such as procurement policy and practice.

The Partnership is an evolving entity which, as it has grown and developed, has faced both internal and external challenges. This case study explores the process behind the CMP as well as the sector-leading outputs it has produced.