Daikin has signed an agreement with Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) in a public and private joint approach to decarbonisation.
The agreement was signed by Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester and Masatsugu Minaka, chair of the Board of Daikin Europe N.V. and senior executive officer of Daikin Industries, at the mayor’s office in Manchester on 3 February. Daikin UK and GMCA have been working together for more than ten years towards Greater Manchester’s target of becoming carbon neutral by 2038.
The installation of Daikin’s heat pumps are set to be a key part of GMCA’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, which is set to see up to a thousand heat pumps delivered to social housing across Greater Manchester.
Previous projects delivered by Daikin UK and GMCA include the Smart Communities Project Greater Manchester, which saw Daikin heat pump water heaters installed between 2013-2017.
Hiroyasu Ishikawa, managing director of Daikin UK, said: “This pioneering partnership between Daikin and GMCA will see Greater Manchester take significant steps towards its zero-carbon by 2038 goal. Other cities should look at this relationship as a best practice approach to meeting decarbonisation targets in social housing.”
The mayor of Greater Manchester added: “This landmark partnership between Greater Manchester and Daikin builds on years of collaboration and friendship between our city-region and Japan. It’s a vote of confidence in our ambitious, science-based plans to become carbon neutral by 2038, and shows how we’re using our international outreach to make a positive difference to people right here in Greater Manchester.”