{"id":9317,"date":"2025-07-20T00:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9317\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:59:15","slug":"county-council-redirects-net-zero-cash-to-flood-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9317\/","title":{"rendered":"County council redirects net-zero cash to flood defences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform UK councillor Harrison Fowler said: &#8220;UK authorities of all sizes like to parade their net-zero efforts around like some badge of honour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But in reality, it&#8217;s nothing more than shallow virtue signalling and PR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council documents prepared for the meeting said the role of local government in combating climate change had been &#8220;constrained by a lack of a clear legal duty as well as a lack of funding from the government&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The documents said the Environmental Targets Bill was currently before Parliament, which aims to introduce a statutory objective requiring public bodies to contribute to the delivery of targets to address climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report added: &#8220;In summary, the proposal under consideration presently appears lawful. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, the cabinet should have in mind that, in the coming years, Parliament may well expand the council&#8217;s legal duties.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform UK councillor Harrison Fowler said: &#8220;UK authorities of all sizes like to parade their net-zero efforts around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-9317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}