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CLIMATE CHANGE

Expect a long wait until councils hit net zero

By Heather Jameson | 08 August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

Not zero: Core cities admit they will fail to hit ambitious climate targets

By Dan Peters | 07 August 2025

Core cities have called for billions of pounds of investment to transition to net zero after admi...

NET ZERO

Warning over scrapping net zero targets

By Martin Ford | 29 July 2025

Councillors have been warned that attempts to ditch net zero targets could be stymied by Governme...

ENVIRONMENT

Wiltshire Council votes to retain carbon targets

By Izzy Lepone | 25 July 2025

Wiltshire Council has rejected a motion to ditch the local authority’s carbon reduction targets.

POLITICS

Reform's Kent finds 'millions of pounds' of savings

By Dan Peters | 11 July 2025

Kent CC’s Department for Local Government Efficiency (DOLGE) has identified ‘millions of pounds w...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Net zero agenda 'stalling' in councils

By Ann McGauran | 17 June 2025

The net zero agenda in local government is ‘stalling’, a campaign group has warned.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Settling old scores

By Annie Pickering | 17 June 2025

Annie Pickering says the second year of the Council Climate Action Scorecards reveals that more l...

NET ZERO

The role of private finance on the road towards net zero

By Ed Barlow | 16 June 2025

Seven years ago, climate change lacked the prominence it holds today. Many councils were active b...

POLITICS

Populism in power

By Sir Bob Neill | 13 May 2025

Having won office, Reform’s new councillors must now use it to improve residents’ lives, writes S...

THINK TANK

Think-tank calls for green energy public-private partnerships

By Emily Twinch | 25 March 2025

The Government should produce a framework for creating public-private partnerships that would hel...