27-28 January 2010
Local Government Association (LGA), Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IdeA) and Energy Saving Trust are holding the ‘Climate Change Conference and Exhibition 2010 – From Copenhagen to Croydon’ on 27-28 January 2010 at the Holiday Inn, Liverpool City Centre, L1 1NQ.
This year, national Governments are negotiating a new global deal to follow the Kyoto Protocol – the outcome will be agreed in Copenhagen in December 2009. While central Government discusses targets, local Government is reducing emissions and planning to cope with change. Becoming a low carbon society both impacts on local Government and relies on local Government to be successful. The UK has committed to legally binding targets to reduce our carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. Radical change is required, the scale of which is hard for some to imagine.
This change needs to happen within society and be locally lead. To achieve this, councils must take a strategic approach to identifying the energy demands of our communities to plan and deliver appropriate and cost-effective solutions. Reducing emissions and planning to adapt to the impacts of climate change must become an integral part of local Government strategy and planning.
Further information at: http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/events/display-event.do?id=2093583.