City is still committed to net zero - Cotton

BIRMINGHAM City Council leader Cllr John Cotton has insisted the organisation’s net zero ambitions are not being sidelined.

- ALEXANDER BROCK News Reporter

The council declared a climate emergency in 2019, saying it would aspire to become net zero carbon by 2030 - or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Labour-controlled authority said its net zero ambitions were about reducing and removing greenhouse gases to mitigate against increasing climate risk.

The term specifically means achieving a balance between the greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere and the greenhouse gases removed from it.

The council’s annual net zero report covering 2023 said last year the authority was making “good progress” in tackling its emissions and had brought together its key teams working on climate change.