Reform council to ‘rescind’ climate emergency declaration

Kent council condemned by opposition parties, which say county is ‘at the forefront of climate impacts’

Plans by Reform UK to “rescind” the declaration of a climate emergency at one of the English county councils it now controls have been condemned by opposition parties.

Hundreds of local authorities across Britain have made the declarations, which serve as acknowledgments that they need to act on the causes and impacts of climate change and are linked to efforts to achieve net zero targets.