Climate Culture Change Called for ; a Critical Report Into Birmingham's Failure to Address Climate Change Is Described by Its Authors As a Sober Reality Check. But Will the City Council Leadership See It That Way? Asks Public Affairs Editor Paul Dale

Birmingham Post › July 03, 2007

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Steve Bedser, the Labour chairman of an allparty city council scrutiny inquiry into sustainability and climate change, took care to get his excuses in first.

A hefty 80-page document produced after a year of evidence gathering has a number of damning things to say about Birmingham's approach to the green agenda, and calls for a wholesale culture change and better leadership.

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Climate Culture Change Called for ; a Critical Report Into Birmingham's Failure to Address Climate Change Is Described by Its Authors As a Sober Reality Check. But Will the City Council Leadership See It That Way? Asks Public Affairs Editor Paul Dale

But, despite his protestations that the findings received backing across the political divide, Coun Bedser knows that he will probably be criticised for being overtly political. Th...

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