Freya Roberts

Jun 12, 2024 | lgafirst.co.uk | Freya Roberts

Cutting carbon and nurturing communityWhen he’s not busy with his desk job, Dr Andrea Berardi is often found mucking out hen houses and taming unruly allotments. He is also one half of a novel partnership team between an academic institution and a local council. In 2022, the senior environmental lecturer from the Open University partnered up with Spelthorne Borough Council to try and bring the community into the council’s carbon cutting plans.

Dec 8, 2023 | lgafirst.co.uk | Darren Rodwell |Freya Roberts |David Renard |Kevin Bentley

Empowering councils to act locally would halve the cost of delivering net zero nationally. Just 5 per cent of the British public feel prepared for climate change, according to an LGA poll.

Apr 26, 2023 | lgafirst.co.uk | Freya Roberts

Freya Roberts Freya Roberts is Project Manager at University College London’s Climate Action Unit How a council and a researcher built a climate change tool for the waste sector.

Apr 26, 2023 | lgafirst.co.uk | Freya Roberts

How a council and a researcher built a climate change tool for the waste sector. In 2019, Cambridgeshire County Council identified that 93 per cent of its carbon emissions came from the goods and services it procured. Its climate team promptly set a target to halve this by 2030. But they immediately uncovered an obstacle to their goal: there was no standard way of measuring emissions across all their suppliers and sectors.