Local Authority Insight Series - Climate Change
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
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Rachel McKoy Assistant Director of Governance & Monitoring Officer 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. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Stephen Cirell Consultant, Stephen Cirell is a well known national expert on public sector climate change, energy efficiency and renewable energy. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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James Lupton
Senior Projects and Infrastructure Lawyer, James is a senior projects and infrastructure lawyer, with over 15 years' experience in advising both public and private sector bodies on commercial arrangements, outsourcings, joint ventures, the procurement and delivery of major infrastructure projects and the legal issues that arise in concluding such transactions. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Richard Honey QC
Barrister, Richard Honey QC practises as a barrister in the fields of public law and environmental law, with particular specialisms in judicial review and similar statutory challenges, infrastructure projects, compulsory purchase and compensation, and climate change and ESG litigation. |