Transport
Apr 25 2024
Birmingham Airport (BHX) has achieved Level 3 (optimisation) of the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) scheme for a second year.
Read moreAs part of a commission from the Midlands Engine Observatory, partners from our region’s Research Partnership, including City-REDI/ WMREDI and Nottingham Trent University, have collaborated to produce a new report: Mapping the Architecture of Economic Development Policy and Strategy Across the Midlands Engine.
The objectives of the research were:
The research found that our region has a complex institutional architecture that features local, subregional and regional bodies.
At local and subregional levels, intelligence varies as to whether strategies include targets and the nature of those targets, presenting considerable challenges for aggregating targets across areas.
The geographically uneven and complex layers of local and subregional governance, with a mix of statutory and non-statutory organisations and responsibilities, pose difficulties for gaining a clear line of sight between subnational and national policies.
Ad hoc challenge funding pots can compound problems of longer-term planning and coordination across geographical scales.
While not all local/subregional strategies need to be the same, the report identifies a case for greater consistency so that they share some common characteristics, including a target framework and a set of indicators to monitor progress.
Transport
Apr 25 2024
Birmingham Airport (BHX) has achieved Level 3 (optimisation) of the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) scheme for a second year.
Read moreGlobal
Apr 24 2024
World-leading materials science and technology consultancy Lucideon is targeting international growth with expansion in the Japanese market.
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Apr 18 2024
The Midlands Engine Partnership will host a Pavilion for the very first time at this year’s UK Real Estate Infrastructure Investment Forum [21-23 May], providing regional partners with a platform to showcase their investment propositions, worth in excess of £42bn, to a global audience.
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