Nearly 60 councils pledge to beef up net zero plans
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Local leaders representing over a third of the population sign up to UK100 initiative that aims to deliver net zero emission communities by 2045
The UK100 group of local authorities and councils has this week announced that nearly 60 cross-party local leaders, representing 35 per cent of the UK population, have now committed to delivering net zero emissions at least five years earlier than the UK-wide goal of 2050.
The group said that 57 councils had now signed up its Net Zero Pledge, which explicitly commits them to neutralising council emissions by 2030 and those of their residents and businesses by 2045.
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Nowadays Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws (Helena Kennedy QC) bestrides a global stage as co-head of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute. But in the early 1970s she had a more limited beat: as a pupil barrister she helped set up a legal advice service at the Waterloo Action Centre, then run by a flatmate.
Waterloo Action Centre is threatened with closure
Source: Michael Cross
The centre is still going – just. But under a review by the London Borough of Lambeth it could see the current peppercorn rent for its premises (pictured) rise to £45k a year. The centre’s Jenny Stiles, that very flatmate, told the Gazette: ‘For 49 years we have had evidence that there are always lawyers who will do that bit extra for others and pensioners willing to make sandwiches for lawyers who come straight from work.’
By Monidipa Fouzder2021-04-23T10:22:00+01:00
A prominent human rights lawyer and member of the House of Lords says she is shocked to learn that the future of a legal advice service she set up nearly 50 years ago is under threat.
Waterloo Legal Advice Service is part of Waterloo Action Centre, which has served as a community hub since 1973. The centre says a new community sector strategy that London Borough of Lambeth is consulting on puts its future
Helena Kennedy QC (Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws) set up the advice service 48 years ago. She told the
Gazette: ‘I shared a flat with [WAC vice-chair] Jenny Stiles. She was a fantastic community worker in the Waterloo area and she was always coming across people with legal problems who just couldn’t afford legal advice – their kids were in trouble or they lived in sub-standard accommodation or they had problems with welfare benefits.