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How is community-centred climate adaptation being nurtured and delivered? 

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What happens when multiple climate change hazards collide?

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Dispatches from the grid frontline: How is the UK’s grid expansion impacting communities?

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What Do the UK Elections Tell Us About Net Zero?

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Coming soon: new episodes of Local Zero

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Bye for now: a message from team Local Zero

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The UK Co-Benefits Atlas: mapping the positive side-effects of reaching net zero

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Van dwelling versus #vanlife: the reality of life on the road

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Climate change and infrastructures of care

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Adapting our homes and communities to a changing climate

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Water scarcity: a growing problem

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Community benefit funds: how can we enhance their impact?

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Climate change adaptation: a primer

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Local authorities, community energy and a just transition

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The Local Power Plan and community energy - with Energy Minister Michael Shanks: FULL EVENT RECORDING

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The Local Power Plan and community energy - with Energy Minister Michael Shanks MP

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Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG): Arup's Tom Butterworth

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A new year for climate action: looking back at 2024 and ahead to 2025

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Shared ownership of clean energy projects: what, how and why?

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What to expect from COP29, following Trump’s victory?

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Episode 100 - four years of Local Zero

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Waste not, want not: top tips to tackle household food waste

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A new dawn for net zero? A forward look at Labour’s plan for government

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Election Special with Sir John Curtice and Daisy Powell-Chandler

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Food and farming in a net-zero Scotland

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Launch of the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities

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Waste not, want not: leasing, fixing and borrowing to reduce consumption

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Community Benefit Funds - what does success look like?

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Harnessing the Power of Open Data

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Greener Better Living: Finance for the Future

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The Fuel Poverty Research Network: Understanding Fuel Poverty

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Citizens assemble: participatory approaches for climate action

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Every Tree Tells a Story

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Origami Activism - Paperboats, The Arts, and Local Climate Action

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2023 Wrapped: Local Zero's Festive Review of the Year

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Is your local council a climate leader?

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Countdown to the UK General Election - full panel discussion

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The Ashden Awards: celebrating local and sustainable energy

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Countdown to the UK General Election: next steps for net-zero

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Swaffham Prior: Lessons from the UK's first rural heat network

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Making our homes smarter and fairer

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Low-carbon islands

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All Aboard the Glasgow Bike Bus

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2023 so far - a stock take on the UK’s climate ambitions

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Hugo Tagholm: Water, water... everywhere?

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Rights Community Action

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How can our gardens protect the environment?

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Carbon Offsetting for Communities 4: Empowerment, Enrichment & Impact

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Carbon Offsetting for Communities 3: Ownership, Governance and Finance

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Decarbonising the UK music industry

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Putting the "us" in energy justice

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Whole person, whole place - social relations and energy retrofit

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Carbon Offsetting for Communities 2: Framing, evaluating and facilitating community benefit from nature-based carbon offsets

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Carbon Offsetting for Communities 1: Rekindling Community with Alastair McIntosh

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Focus on Edinburgh

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Energy networks and smart local systems

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Live: Energy-smart places and a just transition

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Introducing... Dr Fraser Stewart (pending a viva)

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Prospering From the Energy Revolution 4: Impact and Engagement

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Prospering from the Energy Revolution 3: Skills and Supply Chain

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Prospering From the Energy Revolution 2: Finance

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Prospering From the Energy Revolution 1: Policy and Regulation

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Rate my council: Climate Emergency UK's Climate Action Scorecards

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2022 wrapped: Local Zero's festive review of the year

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Corporates and communities: how renewable energy funds community assets

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Scottish Power's role as a decarbonising leader

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Our World in Data with Dr Hannah Ritchie

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COP26 and Glasgow: one year on

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Professor Jim Skea on Net Zero and the just transition

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Crisis averted? Government response to fuel poverty and soaring bills

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Can a smart-meter change your life?

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The future of smarter, more local energy systems - Local Zero live from EnergyREV's 2022 summit

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Disability and the energy crisis

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Power for People: Lobbying and Local Electricity

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Community benefit from offshore wind

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The carbon cost of holiday flights

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Shifting and flexing home energy demand

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Energy Demand and Net Zero

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The rise of Scotland's 'Green Lairds' - with Magnus Davidson

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Green Lairds and the great carbon offset: Edinburgh University/BIEE panel event

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Micro grid energy and community cohousing

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Energy advocacy services in a time of crisis

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Co-benefits of local climate action

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Decarbonising infrastructure

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The cost of Net Zero

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How to kick-start community energy?

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Focus on Aberdeen: the UK oil capital's just transition

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2022: the year of local climate action?

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2021 Wrapped

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Was COP26 a success or failure? With Prof David Reay

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COP26 team debrief

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COP26: Becky and Matt's long overdue catch up

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COP26: Matt in the Blue Zone

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COP26: Sustainability in Glasgow with Gavin Slater

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COP26: Becky’s Bicycle Diaries

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COP26: Is 'net zero' an accounting trick?

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Live at COP26: Delivering a just transition

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COP26: "This is our fight" - Fraser shares a stage with Greta Thunberg

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COP26: Snapshots from Friday's youth march

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COP26 Energy Day: How bad are bananas?