Lobbying for climate action & funding

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    Subject: Freedom of Information request - Lobbying for climate action
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Dear Hannah

Please find attached response in relation to your requests for
information. 

Yours sincerely

Information Governance Officer

Greater London Authority

Dear Greater London Authority,

Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information
Regulations request.
I would like information about your combined authority’s lobbying work in
relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards.

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following
questions:

Has the combined authority written to or met with UK national or devolved
governments to ask or lobby for climate action since 1st January 2019?
Please provide some evidence of the most recent letter or meeting such as
a copy of the letter or email sent, or the date, topic of meeting and
position of the person that the meeting was held with.

This includes either asking for more powers and funding for local
authorities to take climate action, or asking for the government to take
further action themselves. This includes working with other local
authorities to send joint letters or meetings to lobby the UK government
and includes both general climate action and calls for action on specific
issues such as transport where climate change is mentioned as a motivating
factor for taking action. This includes if a cabinet member or other
councillor has written to or met with the UK or devolved governments on
behalf of the combined authority.

I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours faithfully,

Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK

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