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Birmingham Council leader John Cotton\/Green Party councillor Julien Pritchard(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\nBirmingham City Council’s leader said work to ensure net zero takes place in the authority ‘365 days a year’Birmingham Council leader John Cotton\/Green Party councillor Julien Pritchard(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n
The leader of Birmingham City Council has insisted the organisation\u2019s net zero ambitions are not being sidelined.<\/p>\n
The council declared a climate emergency<\/a> in 2019, saying it would aspire to become net zero carbon by 2030 – or as soon as possible thereafter.<\/p>\n The authority<\/a> said its net zero ambitions were about reducing and removing greenhouse gases to mitigate against increasing climate risk.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Watch tense moment Birmingham council leader faces bins strike fury as man asks ‘would you’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The term specifically means achieving a balance between the greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere and the greenhouse gases removed from it.<\/p>\n The council\u2019s annual net zero report covering 2023 said last year the authority was making \u201cgood progress\u201d in tackling its emissions and had brought together its key teams working on climate change.<\/p>\n But during a meeting this week, Green Party<\/a> councillor Julien Pritchard asked why the annual report for 2024 had not been brought before full council yet – and questioned whether the council\u2019s climate work was still a key focus.<\/p>\n During the last two years, the net zero reports were published ahead of meetings at the start of the year in either January or February.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a rather crowded agenda of reports that have been coming through city council,\u201d council leader John Cotton told the meeting of the city council yesterday, June 17.<\/p>\n \u201cThe intention was to bring the [net zero] report to this meeting – unfortunately, some other issues of business meant that had to be moved back.<\/p>\n \u201cBut that will be brought to the next meeting of city council.\u201d<\/p>\n Coun Pritchard responded that it was \u201ca bit disappointing\u201d they would have to wait until July for the report.<\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t fill people with a lot of confidence that the council is living up to its climate change commitments when it can\u2019t even report on its progress once a year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cCan you reassure us that the council\u2019s climate work isn\u2019t being sidelined?\u201d<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-04-at-61325-PMjpeg.jpg\")
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