The action plan contains commitments including:



• Spending £15m on cutting carbon emissions from council buildings by 3,000 tonnes a year

• Investing £1m to plant new trees

• Developing large scale solar and wind power energy schemes

• Introducing 27 new electric bin lorries

• Replacing more street lighting with low energy LED bulbs

Sixty organisations from the city's climate change partnership each submitted their own reduction plans.



Angeliki Stogia, the council's executive member for environment, said the next five years "will be critical if we are to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change" and emphasised the need for "collective action".



'Climate emergency'

Ali Abbas from Manchester Friends of the Earth said he was "pleased the council is starting to take the climate emergency seriously".



But he called for the ditching of current plans to build new roads and "double passenger numbers at the airport" and demanded a "climate emergency levy on flights" from the airport.



Manchester Airport is part-owned by the council and is planning a £1bn expansion, including a new £50m car park.



Mr Abbas added: "If we're going to halve emissions in the next five years, we need to stop adding to the problem."