Head of the Council Mike Whitby outside Birmingham City Council House
How Serious Should Local Authorities Get? Many local authorities have already taken action on climate change. They have signed the Nottingham Declaration, calculated their carbon footprint and looked at how they might reduce it. The city of Manchester has produced its own “mini-Sterne Report”. Commissioned by the city’s economic development agency, Manchester Enterprises, the report estimated that doing nothing to combat climate change would cost the city £21 billion over the next decade. Birmingham has set its own carbon reduction target of a 60% reduction by 2026. Continued on Page 12