Ealing Council has been acknowledged as one of the UK's leading local authorities in tackling the climate emergency according to climate organisation.

Climate Emergency UK assesses all councils in the country on their progress towards net zero, ranking the work they are doing across seven categories.

These categories are buildings and heating; transport; planning and land use; governance and finance; biodiversity; collaboration and engagement; and waste reduction and food.

Ealing Council came joint tenth out of 186 councils in the rankings and scored well above the average performance in almost all categories, including scoring 90% in the planning and land use category.

The council was awarded a total score of 55% by Climate Emergency UK, putting it in the top performance tier of councils.

Ealing Council has doubled the amount of bike hangars in the area within the last six months to tackle the climate emergency (credit: Ealing Council).

Councillor Deirdre Costigan, cabinet member for climate action, said: "It's right that we are being recognised for our work on combatting the climate emergency, which we've done in partnership with residents through our community climate action group Act for Ealing. However, we know we all need to do more.

"The key to reaching our net zero goal is making sure every area of council activity is focused on climate action and that's why we're making big bold decisions such as creating a new regional park for Ealing.

"The regional park will be a real game changer, a green lung for London that will offer clean air, new habitats for wildlife, flood management and urban woodlands."

Only 25 of the 186 single tier authorities in Britain scored above 50%, with the average score being 35%.

To read the full Ealing Council climate scorecard, click here.

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