Letter to candidates:
Scientific evidence increasingly points to an escalation of global climate breakdown, with dire consequences for humanity and nature. The scale of the challenge was encapsulated by the National Emergency Briefing in November 2025, when nine of the UK’s most prominent experts briefed an invited audience of more than 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media in Westminster on the implications of climate and nature breakdown for health, food systems, national security and the economy.
The current war in the Middle East has thrown these risks into even sharper focus.
Local authorities can play an important role in addressing climate breakdown and building resilience to help communities cope with the impact.
Please outline how you would tackle the issues below, if elected as a Camden councillor in May 2026.
Climate Emergency Camden (a coalition of groups and residents seeking urgent action on the climate and nature crisis)will then publicise your answers, including by posting them on our website, to guide residents in their choice about who should lead our council for the next four years.
How would you:
1. Reduce the Council’s CO2 emissions?
2. Prepare the borough for more extreme weather events and climate-related emergencies?
3. Address carbon in the Council’s supply chains?
4. Tackle carbon produced in development and construction?
5. Guide residents and businesses to live and operate more sustainably?
Many thanks for answering these questions. Please email your answers to climateemergencycamden@gmail.com.
Answers submitted by April 20th will be published on our website and will inform our engagement with the Council after the elections. Climate Emergency Camden is keen to work with all Camden councillors to reduce carbon emissions and protect nature in our borough. We are also interested in your general thoughts and would be very happy to engage in a dialogue with you up to and beyond the elections.
climateemergencycamden.org 