The story behind Nottingham’s race to be the UK’s first carbon neutral city

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Transport, housing and energy use all being transformed in bid to hit zero emissions by 2028

In this decade, humans have become ever more aware of climate change. Calls for leaders to act echo around the globe as the signs of a changing climate become ever more difficult to ignoreFierce wildfires have flared up in numerous countries. The damage being caused is unprecedented: 103 people were killed in wildfires last year in California, one of the places best prepared, best equipped to fight such blazes in the worldEntire towns have been razed.

 

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This is awesome, the state should offer a bounty for the most carbon negative city per capita, paid each year with runner up prizes. Investment in environmental policy provides unrewarded social benefit, this is a correctable market failure.

To be truly zero carbon means depopulating by 90%. How does Nottingham intend to achieve this? .

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