Green Alliance has launched the report:

Green Cities: using city deals to drive low carbon growth

This report examines the degree to which cities can drive low carbon growth and looks in detail at the government ‘city deals’ process as a means of achieving this.

‘City deals’ have been introduced to unlock the economic potential of cities, transferring power, tools and support from central government. So far, deals have been agreed with the eight core cities, known as ‘wave one’, and a further 20 cities, known as ‘wave two’, are in the running to agree deals by November 2013. The report looks at how wave one cities integrated low carbon ambitions into their deals and makes recommendations about how this can be achieved and embedded more consistently among wave two cities, as they agree their deals in the coming year.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation supported Green Alliance under its Environment theme, which aims to help in the development of a society which benefits from a more sustainable relationship with the natural world and understands the value of its resources.

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