Climate emergency – Hastings In Focus

Forget lockdown, we’re heading for meltdown… Emissions in Hastings might have dropped by 40 per cent in 15 years but there’s still a lot of work to do!

Maya Evans is leading Hastings Borough Council’s efforts on tackling climate change. Here she explains what she hopes can be achieved locally for the borough to become carbon neutral by 2030. She concedes however that the council may have high ambitions but as things stand its powers to achieve those ambitions are limited. I am […]

Council’s ‘radical’ motion – what did it commit us to?

In February Hastings Borough Council passed a motion declaring a ‘climate emergency’. It has been described as more radical than similar motions passed by other councils so what did the council commit to? We thought you might like to read what your council actually approved and you can assess whether you think it’s achieving it’s […]