Levelling up

The Levelling Up Bill misses a major opportunity to create a planning system fit to simultaneously tackle the climate, housing and cost-of-living crises, argues Energy UK's Aradhna Tandon

Funding designed to ease cost of living crisis, encourage more sustainable transport choices, and boost rural economies

New £9m fund aims to deliver over 100 new and improved green spaces in communities with limited access to nature

Over 60 green groups and professional bodies argue that 'legal right to nature’ should be placed at centre of government’s levelling up agenda

Jacob Ainscough at Lancaster University argues the opportunity to link the net zero transition and the levelling up agenda is at risk of being squandered

Investment in foundation industries is key to industrial heartlands' regeneration and the success of Levelling Up, writes UKRI's Dr Hugh Falkner

Tax reform and Green universal basic services could help both level-up the country and build a more sustainable, resilient and inclusive economy, argues Dame Professor Henrietta Moore of the Institute for Global Prosperity

The Levelling Up Whitepaper and mooted response to the gas price crisis are welcome, but the failure to prioritise climate action continues to undermine the government's economic strategy on multiple fronts

Windfall taxes and green levy reforms appear increasingly unlikely, as Treasury prepares package of loans for energy suppliers and targeted support for fuel poor households