Blueprint Coalition webinar: Burnham, rewiring the state, and local climate action – what next for councils?
5th November, 14.00-15.30
After a summer of unprecedented heat, action by local authorities to mitigate and adapt to climate change has never been more urgent.
But local authorities face a new operating environment. Cross-party consensus on local climate action has gone, with political change at recent local elections leading to some Climate Emergency Declarations being rescinded and local policies being rewritten to remove references to carbon and net zero. The Burnham government is prioritising devolution but has paused
Local government reorganisation, creating uncertainty for local climate action. New work commissioned by the Climate Change Committee on the role of local authorities in both mitigation and adaptation has been published.
This webinar will explore the implications of this changed environment. It will be chaired by Nigel Riglar, chair of ADEPT's Climate Change Board.
There is a fantastic line up of speakers, including:
- Dan Griffiths, Head of Low Carbon at Greater Manchester Combined Authority
- Louise Marix Evans, co-author of Local Authorities and the Seventh Carbon Budget
- Edward de Quay, Policy Analyst, Grantham Research Institute (London School of Economics)
The Blueprint Coalition is a politically neutral, cross-sector coalition of local government senior professionals, charities, civil society and environmental groups, and climate research institutions.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/-OVWI-egSdGTjqtPsYBrRg#/registration
