First of our CREDS impact stories, Valentine Quinio talks about how Centre for Cities has used carbon.place. Investment in public transport isn't always about adding new routes but enhancing existing... The tool helped understand where this was the case

Three of the most terrifying graphs on the internet right now.

Density encourages and enables greener lifestyles: low-carbon transport options are more accessible & denser housing is more energy-efficient 🚉⚡ In Net Zero APPG's new Myth Busting Report, Snr Analyst Valentine Quinio de-bunks the myth that cities are bad for the environment ⤵️

Michael Gove this week spoke of the environmental benefits of urban density – and he's right 🏙️🌱 Density enables greener lifestyles, for instance encouraging more active travel 🚴 Valentine Quinio debunks the "cities are bad for the planet" myth 🔽 centreforcities.org/blog/cities-ar…

Does ‘trickle out’ economics work? This term is pejoratively given to the idea that improving the performance of big cities will bring benefits to their wider areas. Our new report shows that it does work, and many parts of the country need more of it centreforcities.org/publication/do…

🚀LAUNCHED TODAY – New briefing from Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney | Does ‘trickle out’ work? 📝 Challenging the misleading towns vs cities political narrative, Paul sets out the role of cities in generating prosperity for nearby places 🧵 centreforcities.org/publication/do…

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Sigh. The politics of this (in the context of other approaches - net zero and cars) are obvious. Pitching cities v towns continues to be politically alluring. Nevertheless, some thoughts…

This is now a huge test for these newspapers. Their confirmation bias led them to lap up the findings without due diligence (despite advance warnings the findings were nonsense). Will they now retract their own articles?

I’ve never seen a Conference like this before. It’s as if they are competing to say the silliest thing

Not very French of me but smoking ban probs not a bad idea. Bit confused though, coming from a PM whose whole Net Zero U-turn a week ago was largely based on anti ULEZ campaign...