ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: What are the legal powers that local authorities can use to fight climate change and what legal obstacles do they face? Rachel McKoy, Stephen Cirell, Richard Honey QC and James Lupton consider the problems.
Local authorities are on the front line of the battle against climate change. According to Friends of the Earth there are more than thirty actions that local authorities could and should take to help the fight against climate change. These include reducing carbon emissions through housing policies, procurement, planning and transport policy, infrastructure improvements and by decarbonising constriction and regeneration activity.
But, in practice, what legal powers can local authorities use to put these plans into action and what legal obstacles do they face?
To address these questions, LexisNexis and Local Government Lawyer put together a panel of legal experts to explore four key aspects of local authorities’ roles in reducing the rate of climate change:
- How local authorities can use their own assets to combat climate change.
- The levers available to the local authorities and the potential impact of the Environment Bill
- Using the planning system to combat (and deal with the consequences of) climate change.
- Decarbonising infrastructure and regeneration projects
About the speakers
Rachel McKoy
Assistant Director of Governance & Monitoring Officer London Borough of Hounslow.
Rachel is a specialist planning solicitor with significant commercial experience in all areas of planning, regeneration and local government law - dealing with large scale strategic schemes, estate regeneration, capital delivery and infrastructure projects.
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Stephen Cirell
Consultant, Stephen Cirell Consultancy Ltd.
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