Tag: Environment
How do we blast through the inertia currently gripping British climate policy making?
8th November, 2021
The causes and effects of climate change are different in every part of the UK. If we want to achieve ‘net zero’ carbon emissions, we need local solutions to this national problem.
28th July, 2021
Climate change • Environment • Leadership • Research Reports
Thinking of climate change through a local lens can help us find practical solutions, and stop searching for silver bullets. Luca Tiratelli on our new research project in partnership with Groundwork and Grosvenor.
15th July, 2021
Climate change • Community Power • Environment • Research Reports
Communities vs Climate Change
13th July, 2021
Most of us recognise that climate change will soon overshadow every crisis that came before. But our approaches to tackling it are too often marred by denial, evasion and false optimism. In this long read, Luca Tiratelli unpacks the...
19th November, 2020
The last few years have seen scores of councils publish inclusive growth plans – a radical admission that the economy, as presently constructed, is failing to deliver for millions of people. This has been an overwhelmingly positive development, and...
15th February, 2020
Economy and business • Environment • Inclusive Growth • Strategy and leadership
Adam Lent argues that our intensifying climate crisis requires a political, economic and cultural revolution rooted in the empowerment of communities. @adamjlent We enter this new decade in the grip of a triple crisis: of climate, of economic inequality...
20th January, 2020
Climate change • Community Power • Environment • Public Services
So, the new decade begins with Australia literally on fire. Unsurprisingly, many of us are feeling the moral imperative for climate action more strongly than ever, and yet a glance at politics right now offers little cause for hope....
6th January, 2020
The environment has been skyrocketing up councils’ agendas in recent years, but local government still faces significant challenges in how to respond.
25th November, 2019
A week ago, the UK reached its hottest recorded temperature. Over the weekend half a month’s rain fell in one hour. On Tuesday, major flooding hit Yorkshire. And yesterday, the Met Office confirmed that the UK’s 10 hottest years...
1st August, 2019
Climate change • Democracy • Environment • Participation and co-production
Exploring the work of local government around local renewable energy generation.
18th October, 2018
Climate change • Community Power • Environment • Infrastructure • Innovation In-depth • Members
Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released their report into the effects of global warming and confirmed what many have suspected for some time – that global warming is accelerating even faster than predicted three years...
16th October, 2018
With air pollution causing some 40,000* early deaths in the UK each year, poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to UK public health currently. Addressing air pollution from transport emissions, as part of longer-term air quality management...
15th June, 2017
In March 2015, NLGN ran a roundtable in partnership with WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff in Birmingham to discuss the low carbon economy and its role in promoting sustainable growth. This paper outlines the key themes coming out of these...
2nd June, 2015
NLGN have called on councils to try and cushion some of the current financial pressures they face by making greater use of green energy subsidies – with an estimated pot available of up to £12 billion over the next...
16th February, 2011
Our report suggests that the government’s flagship ‘Green Deal’ programme will be in danger of failing to reach the households most in need of more energy efficient homes across the social housing sector.
22nd November, 2010