The National Audit Office is warning that there are serious weaknesses in central government’s approach to working with local authorities on decarbonisation, stemming from a lack of clarity over local authorities’ overall roles, piecemeal funding, and diffuse accountabilities.

Lord Deben, Chair of the influential Climate Change Committee, the government’s independent adviser on clmate change, is urging the government to listen to a call by local leaders and Mayors from across the UK for a power shift from Whitehall to meet Net Zero.