Net zero action across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire is happening, but it is not happening fast enough. For example the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research report warns that at 2017 CO2 emission levels, Broxtowe would use its entire carbon budget up within six years from 2020\. This budget is supposed to last until 2100\. This challenge echoes across districts within D2N2\. There is a concern that opportunities are being missed despite the partnership working. This is because there is a lack of resource to take collective actions forward. Furthermore, Local Authorities need their citizens and business communities to be active, informed participants on this journey. \*Building on the net zero collaboration in each D2N2 LEP County , there is an ambition to move to even closer collaborative working and this would be facilitated by the _Net Zero Innovation and Delivery Officer_ who would support the co-ordination of strategic projects including: \*Development of a Co-County net zero project pipeline. \*Support the development of an energy master plan for the region, in partnership with public and private sector stakeholders. \*Develop and implement a Stakeholder Engagement Plan on Behaviour change plus look at supporting the operation and maintenance of Low Carbon technologies for residents. This could include the production of a toolkit and guide for residents on different carbon reduction technology options and how to use, operate and maintain them. \*Share best practice and lessons learned such as Nottinghamshire's Green Rewards platform and Derbyshire's Renewable Energy Planning guide.

Nottingham has major challenges in common with other cities in delivering public services more efficently and being more responsive to our citizens and businesses. This project will attempt to use information generated in the city by people using transport, energy, healthcare etc. to understand how these systems work and to improve them. By providing the public, research facilities and businesses with better access to this information we want to encourage them to develop applications to improve transport, energy use, healthcare and other vital services. Development of a new "Smart City Information Model" will help organisations and individuals to access and use information to support more sustainable city planning. The first step of this is to undertake a feasibility study to work with partners in all sectors to develop proposals for how these systems can start to work together.

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The UK countryside includes iconic sites of national heritage. Country houses represent long-standing elite rural lifestyles while water-powered textile mills refer to Britain's past as an industrial pioneer. However these sites suffer from a lack of diversity in the histories presented and the visitors they attract. Black and Asian groups are more typically resident in urban areas and report feelings of isolation and difference during visits to the countryside. Many feel their heritage is not sufficiently represented in rural sites, despite evidence existing of key connections. In country houses portraits of Black or Asian figures, 'exotic' products and plants suggest these connections, while textile mills display raw cotton supplies grown in warmer climates. Yet these histories are rarely explored or explained and are often seen as challenging to address due to associations with colonial and slave trade practices. This project seeks to connect together heritage organisations, Black and Asian community groups and academics in a collaboration which aims to benefit all parties. Drawing on evidence of historical connections with people of African and Asian descent its goals are to produce more diverse representations of Black and Asian histories in rural heritage sites and to change their organisational cultures. Two key examples of rural textile and country estate heritage sites have been selected as venues for the collaboration. The first is Cromford Mills is a key location in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in Derbyshire, designated due to its pioneering cotton textile industry. The second is Newstead Abbey is a well-known country estate particularly due to its associations with the poet Bryon. In both cases the collaborating groups have committed to a series of discussions, visits and co-production of new ways of presenting these sites and enhancing their meaning and appeal for ethnic minority groups and wider society.

Since 2015 cities across Europe have increasingly become destinations for young forced migrants. This project brings together city leaders, artists, and researchers to promote integration and increase social participation in communities affected by migration. Given that participation in the arts can enhance place-making and encourages social belonging, this project will develop, implement, and evaluate arts-programmes for migrants in case-study cities in England, Germany, and Sweden. It will understand barriers to social integration amongst refugees and host communities, especially relating to gender This will lead to knowledge translation from this empirical study to develop sustainable solutions to social integration and citizenship.