In September, Liverpool was recognised as the world’s first United Nations ‘Accelerator City’ for climate action.
The initiative kicked off with Expedition One on November 29, a two day event at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool featuring interactive elements as well as lab sessions. Live talks were also held by the likes of Chris Packham, Dominique Palmer and Dale Vince, all very vocal voices for climate activism.
Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of Liverpool, was also in attendance.
He said: “This could only happen here in Liverpool City Region, a place of innovation. We want Liverpool to be the place where people can come and do extraordinary things.”
“We’ve got bold ambitions to become a net zero carbon city and city region by 2035, which is the most ambitious in the whole country.”
In 2019, Liverpool City Region (LCR) became the first combined authority in the country to declare a climate emergency. Since then, heaps of progress has been made, with the Eurovision contest in 2023 proving the ability to be able to host sustainable events and acting as a role model for cities globally.
During the event, projects to aid their goal in decarbonisation were introduced. A couple of these include: a ticketing system for live entertainment events where you are also able to buy your tickets for travel whether that be via train or bus etc to reduce the emissions that cars release and transitioning venues to 100% renewable energy.
Alongside Expedition One, M&S Bank Arena Liverpool hosted three nights of live music from Massive Attack, Nile Rodgers and IDLES, all events promising to be low carbon.
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