The Low Carbon Demonstration Programme is a Northwest Development Agency (NWDA) funded project which will help the region successfully adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change whilst increasing the regions energy security. The project delivers a key action of Rising to the Challenge – the Climate Change Action Plan for England’s Northwest. The project will run until March 2011.

The programme supports and promotes projects which demonstrate carbon savings that signify the development of a low carbon economy and exemplify best practice in the move towards a low carbon economy in England’s Northwest.

The programme will work with public, private and not for profit organisations through two primary activities:

1. Providing co-ordination & support to maximise external (national and international) funding for low carbon projects in the Northwest region (see our funding page)
2. The provision of grants to organisations for the demonstration of low carbon technologies and practices which exemplify best practice and innovation towards a low carbon economy – The Carbon Challenge Fund 

The overall project objectives are to:

• Improve understanding of low carbon technologies and processes
• Capitalise on additional carbon savings through deployment of low carbon technologies
• Enable regional leadership on climate change
• Improve the image of the Northwest region as a low carbon region