UK Local Authorities are increasingly declaring 'climate emergencies' and pledging 100%
clean energy and carbon neutrality ambitions for their locality, despite lack of powers over …

Local level decision-making can provide a vital and practicable means through which to
deliver carbon reductions at individual, household and community levels. This paper …

Analyses of local climate change governance and sustainable energy transitions have
tended to focus on understanding broader governance networks, within which local …

In the first decade of the 21st century, there was considerable interest in the potential for
reducing the reliance on centralised energy systems and introducing greater …

Both the policy context and institutional architectures for community engagement have
changed rapidly in Scotland over last decade. After 2003, the early engagement of …

In the UK a new theme has emerged in policy discourse and the investment of public
resources around the concept of community renewable energy. A series of central …

Local authorities are well placed to realise co-benefits of integrated local energy systems;
however, in the UK they have no statutory energy mandate. Planning and developing clean …

As in other countries, there is a growing public, policy and business interest in the UK in the
roles and potential of community-led initiatives for sustainable energy consumption and …

What We Know about Local Authority Engagement in UK Energy Systems: Ambitions,
Activities, Business Structures & Ways Forward — University of Edinburgh Research Explorer …

Despite several recent UK initiatives to promote renewable energy development at the local
level, little research has been carried out to investigate public beliefs about aspects of local …