Our publications promote insight, opinion and evidence on the solutions to the most important challenges facing local leaders who need to put in place ambitious local action to deliver net zero.
We work with elected representatives, academics, policy experts and business to author, present and promote insight, evidence, recommendations and incisive commentary on the solutions to climate change.
This allows us to promote knowledge sharing amongst local and national government to commit to ambitious action on Net Zero.
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.
From our Net Zero Local Delivery Summit in the summer to a new training project, 2022 will be an exciting year for UK100 as our network moves from declaration to delivery.
2021 saw the case for local climate action go mainstream. 93 UK local authorities pledged to meet Net Zero early and the UN recognised the power of local climate action.
The Prime Minister describes the UK’s international leadership on climate change as ‘game-changing’, pointing to a 44% reduction in UK emissions on 1990 levels.
This report by the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action, Queens University Belfast and the Place-Based Climate Action Network for UK100 presents a synthesis of existing work relating to the economic benefits of local climate action.
