[[!redirects Birmingham, UK]] # Idea Birmingham has a fully-costed analysis of potential domestic, commercial, industrial and transport carbon reduction measures. ## Introduction Birmingham and the wider urban area has a population of 3 million, an economy worth £50 billion a year and an energy bill of £5.1 billion a year. ## Details In 2013 the city council established a panel, the [[Birmingham Green Commission]], consisting of academics, business people and voluntary sector representatives to report on a comprehensive environmental strategy for the local authority area. The commission set a target of reducing the Birmingham and wider urban area (BWUA)'s carbon emissions by 60% by 2027 from a 1990 baseline. The Green Commission's analysis was developed into a [[Carbon Roadmap]]. It also mandated regular monitoring of progress, [[CO2 emissions]], the first of which was published in 2014 and commissioned a mini-Stern report on [[the economics of low carbon strategies for the BWUA]].