Register now for our York and North Yorkshire event on 12th August 2010!

Yorkshire & Humber Regional Environment Forum is in its tenth year. In that time we have enjoyed many achievements, especially devising and pursuing a shared environmental agenda, influencing decision-making, developing a widely-envied online network, and finding answers to sticky questions like ‘what are environmental limits?’

We have also learned many hard lessons and faced perennial challenges, as money has become tighter and partner organisations have been through difficult structural changes. However, one of the most striking changes over the last decade has been that political attitudes to climate change have been revolutionised – locally, nationally and internationally – and the environmental community now needs to maintain this momentum during difficult economic times.

2010 is shaping up to be a year of unknown quantities and interesting challenges: a new coalition government, spending cuts across the public sector, and the growth of sub-regions as units of planning and decision-making.

• So what will become of environment?
• Who will be making the decisions?
• Do we need to do things differently, and are we equipped to do so?

Download the programme flyer...

Action for 2010

To help explore these questions, YHREF will be hosting a number of events to give you the opportunity to meet with key organisations and discuss the challenges that lie ahead. They will be:

• four sub-regional workshops to catalyse and improve working relationships between environmental organisations and local and sub-regional partnerships;
• a regionwide policy conference, bringing together interests from all corners of Yorkshire & Humber to work together on the most pressing environmental issues of the moment.

Dates for the Diary

• Tuesday 13th July - Leeds City Region Workshop - Download the flyer for more details...
• Thursday 12th August - York & North Yorkshire Sub-Region - Download the flyer for more details...
• Early September TBC - Humber Sub-Region   
• Late September TBC - Sheffield City Region
• November TBC - Regionwide Policy Conference

For more information contact event@yhref.org.uk