climate change - Hackney Citizen

Council must keep tenants cool under new heat law

City Hall says failing to adapt could cost London up to £36bn a year by the 2050s

Author: Hackney Citizen

Map of properties vulnerable to heat impacts in London

Hackney among boroughs warning climate change could cost London £15bn a year by 2050

Worsening heatwaves, floods and drought will hit unless government acts, warns a partnership of 12 central boroughs including Hackney

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney among boroughs warning climate change could cost London £15bn a year by 2050

Leader - 'Lives, not spreadsheets': Hackney's new mayor is right to doubt the dashboard — but on climate, targets are how we survive

Standing in the council chamber at the first full meeting since the Greens' landslide, Hackney's new mayor set out a governing creed in plain terms

Author: Hackney Citizen

City Hall to introduce new data centre policy amid environmental concerns

The Greater London Authority's Assistant Director for Environment and Energy confirmed City Hall is developing a new policy which will attempt to balance the economic benefits and environmental damage of the data centres

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

Inside Hackney's green economy six years after council declared climate emergency

In 2019, Hackney Council declared a climate emergency and vowed to rebuild a greener borough. Six years on, how close are they to fulfilling that pledge?

Author: Sam Foxell