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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...
CLIMATE CHANGE
The good, the bad and the ugly
By Christopher Hammond | 12 March 2025
Christopher Hammond says new powers on climate action offer genuine promise, but local authoritie...
NET ZERO
The role of private finance on the road towards net zero
By Ed Barlow | 26 February 2025
Many councils have been left to confront the reality of their promises on net zero, writes Ed Bar...
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