Manchester council's climate scrutiny shakeup 'tokenistic', say environmental campaigners
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox A proposed shakeup of the way Manchester council discusses climate change is due to be signed off - but campaigners have described the changes as ‘tokenistic’.
More than 1,700 people and organisations signed a petition calling for a new scrutiny committee to allow councillors to focus solely on examining the city’s approach to the environment.
The recommendations were made amid concerns that Manchester would fall short of its targets of becoming zero carbon by 2038.
Manchester has also spent a quarter of its ‘carbon budget’ - a 15 million tonne cap on harmful emissions - within two years when it is supposed to last until the end of the
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