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.

UK100's Interim Chief Executive Jason Torrance reflects on the energy efficiency announcements launched as part of the UK Government's "Green Day" Net Zero Strategy update and policy blitz.

UK100's Interim Chief Executive, Jason Torrance, responds to the Government’s new air quality strategy, and the associated 10-day consultation.

Looking back at the Green Day announcements, have Ministers made the best of this test? Have they taken the right path at this critical fork in the road?

On ’Green Day’ we hoped to see a plan for Net Zero delivery that understands, as the Government’s Independent Mission Zero report did, that local authorities are the key to achieving Net Zero in the UK. Our hopes, however, have been dashed on the ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams.’ Today’s announcements fall far short of unlocking the ambition and ability within local government to go further and faster in delivering Net Zero.

Responding to the Spring Budget, UK100 welcomes the short-term energy bill relief but reiterates its call for a long-term solution, targeted at the most vulnerable.

UK100 writes to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities with recommendations for the National Planning Policy Framework to address the climate and ecological emergency, seize the economic opportunities that the transition to Net Zero presents and build communities and infrastructure resilient to the worst impacts of climate change.

This week Sheffield became the latest city to implement a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) to tackle an estimated 500 deaths a year related to air pollution in the city.

UK100 responds as House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee slams “failing” Boiler Upgrade Scheme.

Responding to the latest air quality statistics release from Defra, which reveals illegal levels of PM2.5 pollution across the UK, UK100’s Interim Chief Executive, Jason Torrance, calls for Ministers to finally listen to local leaders and experts to tackle the toxic crisis.