Sustainable City Awards 2022: Public sector

Councillor Pete Elliott

Over the last eight years, Pete has worked with hundreds of people across Lambeth Council and the wider Lambeth community in his role as Councillor to champion a just and equitable transition to carbon neutrality in Lambeth. Alongside climate work, much of his efforts have been on housing and air quality as key areas that need addressing locally. By helping address these problems that are affecting people’s everyday lives, you can, both work to reduce some of the inequalities, and also work to address the climate emergency.

Dr Tamsin Ellis

Tamsin has been at the forefront of sustainable healthcare in primary care not just in her own practice (Greener Practice, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, NCL ICS) but nationally. She puts sustainability at the heart of her practice and understands that the climate crisis is a health crisis that also unfairly affects communities differently.

Dr Rita Issa

Rita is an East London GP at Bromley by Bow Health Centre, a climate change and health researcher, and campaigner, working with health professionals and the local community to raise awareness and empower bottom-up and top-down action on climate change and air pollution, for human and planetary health

Dr Anna Moore

As a Respiratory Registrar and Education Fellow for Barts Health NHS Trust/Royal London Hospital, Anna became increasingly concerned about the impact of air pollution on health, but noticed that there was a difference between what she was learning as a respiratory doctor and what she learned as a parent through reading information on social and mainstream media. With not enough training for health professionals on the damage that air pollution does to our health and what measures we can take to reduce our exposure, Anna was really interested in looking at how we can improve this in health education at all levels, so is always on the look-out for opportunities to get involved in this work - and has actively created some as well!

London Borough of Merton: Cleaner Construction for London Team

The Air Quality team is delivering London’s Low Emission Zone (LEZ) for Construction Machinery. This pioneering work is shaping positive change in the construction industry, delivering on-the-ground site compliance and significant measurable emissions savings in NOx, PM and CO2 across London

London Borough of Redbridge: Green Homes Grant Team

The Redbridge Go Green Grants are available to homeowners and landlords in the borough to help improve the energy efficiency of their homes through the installation of low-carbon heating improvements. This could help save up to £600 a year on energy bills and make homes warmer and more comfortable for the people living in them.

London Borough of Waltham Forest

Since 2014 Waltham Forest has been leading the way on introducing a range of walking and cycling infrastructure and behaviour change initiatives to encourage and enable more people to travel sustainably. This has resulted in improvements in air quality, residents travelling more actively, and an increase in average life expectancy from birth in 2006 of around 1.5 months.