Power Shift

UK100, Quantum
May 2021
Our Power Shift report is the most comprehensive examination of the powers local authorities have and need to deliver on climate ever undertaken. It draws on previous expert reports, including those produced for government, combined with a series of interviews with local authorities and other stakeholder organisations.
Local authorities face “Kafkaesque” barriers to achieving Net Zero goals, reveals a comprehensive new UK100 report. Powers in Place calls for a new Net Zero Local Powers Bill and Net Zero Delivery Framework. The report is released as UK100 joins Chris Skidmore MP’s Local Mission Zero Network and announces plans to work together to drive forward policy solutions to overcome the barriers to local Net Zero.

CfBT and UK100 response to consultation on Ending the sale of new, non-zero emission buses, coaches and minibuses

Karen Barrass, Silviya Barrett
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UK100
Campaign For Better Transport
May 2022
This is a joint response to the Department for Transport's consultation on Ending the sale of new, non-zero emission buses, coaches and minibuses behalf of the Campaign for Better Transport (CfBT) and UK100. 

It examines the role of local and combined authorities in decarbonising buses, coaches and minibuses.

Power Shift: National Insight Briefing - Transport

Prof Greg Marsden
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UK100
September 2021
Both the Climate Change Committee and the National Audit Office have highlighted the fundamental role of local authorities in delivering on the UK Government’s ambitions to be Net Zero by 2050. To do so, local authorities need more powers to act.