#ClimateChange

Leeds PIPES District Heating Network
17th November 2023
6 mins read

Leeds graded ‘A’ for Climate Action by CDP

Leeds City Council has been recognised as one of 119 cities across the globe taking bold leadership on environmental action and transparency — despite the pressures of a challenging global economic situation in a new list published by renowned international authority the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The city is among the likes of New…
Councillor Helen Hayden and David Wigglesworth
10th March 2023
3 mins read

1,000 trees planted as part of the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme

Work has started to plant thousands of trees at the site of a new flood storage area – a vital part of the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase 2 (FAS2). On 21 February, a group of volunteers planted the first 1,000 trees in the area surrounding the Leeds FAS2 flood storage area between the…
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan
29th July 2022
1 min read

Leeds’ climate change resilience to be discussed by councillors

Senior councillors are set to discuss the city’s resilience against the impacts of climate change at a meeting of Leeds City Council’s Executive Board. Ahead of the meeting, the council has published a new report setting out the main risks that Leeds will face over the coming decades due to global warming. The report…
Real Living Wage
4th February 2022
3 mins read

Leeds City Council committed to supporting most vulnerable residents and frontline services as annual budget plans confirmed

Investing in new and improved ways of supporting vulnerable children and adults together with protecting frontline services are the key commitments in Leeds City Council’s annual budget plans to be confirmed this month. Those elements underpin the annual budget for 2022/23, which will be considered by senior councillors at the executive board meeting next…
Better Homes Yorkshire
6th November 2020
2 mins read

Hundreds of homes in Leeds to benefit from £2.9 million of funding to install energy efficiency measures

Leeds City Council has secured £2.9 million of funding to provide targeted energy efficiency improvements such as cavity wall insulation, air source heat pumps, and external wall insulation in areas with high levels of fuel poverty and inefficient homes. The work, which is funded by a Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy grant,…