Climate Action Leeds
Zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just Leeds by the 2030s
City movement building
We want to help Leeds become a city that is united and connected in our response to the climate, nature, and social emergencies.
That’s why we’re growing a movement of individuals, communities, public sector organisations, businesses, academics, and decision makers who come together to take action on the biggest challenges facing the city.
Climate Action Leeds is building this movement and helping it gain momentum by several different means...
Imagine Leeds: the climate action hub
As well as hubs based in different community settings, our programme of work involves setting up a hub in Leeds city centre: Imagine Leeds: the climate action hub.
Imagine Leeds provides an opportunity to envisage what a zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just city would look like. Based at 9 Blenheim Terrace, Imagine Leeds re-opened in November 2024 and hosts a variety of meetings, events and co-working.
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Our vision is to create a permanent venue where different sectors can work together in an inclusive, participatory, practical and strategic way.
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Read more about Imagine Leeds and how to book desk space, meeting rooms or event hire.​​
City plan – the Leeds Doughnut
Climate Action Leeds is developing a city plan, to provide an overarching framework for how we see the direction of Leeds over the next few years as it responds to the climate emergency.
To develop this plan, we are using the approach of award-winning economist Kate Raworth and her Doughnut Economics model.
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This approach asks: how can people in a place thrive without over-shooting and damaging planetary boundaries (carbon, water, air, soil etc.), and without falling below aspects that ensure a good life (education, health, equality etc.)? We call this the Leeds Doughnut, where we aim to live in a safe space within these two boundaries.
Our aim is that the work of the transition partners and the community hubs informs and builds the doughnut, to enable us to create a city plan based on our collective insights.
The Leeds Doughnut is an open and collaborative planning process which we hope will inspire local sectors and groups to explore how we can all thrive as we build the future Leeds we want.
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Additional funding to support the city planning process has been generously provided by the University of Leeds.
Public events
Climate Action Leeds assemblies take place twice a year, although not always in the same format.
They are open, cross-sector events which engage with the broader community of Leeds. They offer a platform for networking and outreach, and amplify the city-wide conversation on climate action.
The aim is to share, learn, and plan together across the diverse communities and sectors in the city. Project updates will be shared along with key information and opportunities.
Each assembly is an event to celebrate, but also to focus on how we tackle the real challenges ahead, together.
Climate Action Leeds is creating a training and learning plan.
The aim of the plan is to support programme activities and make sure we all have the skills and insights to meet our aims.
We want our training to be useful and relevant to identified needs, but also strategic in that it takes a ‘long view’ on the structural causes of climate change and social injustice. We want it to be empowering and enabling as well as participatory, so our training is designed around the active involvement of participants.
Our training and learning is rooted in Climate Action Leeds’ principles and ideas of how change happens, so we live our values and principles in our training work.
This training will be informed by the latest climate research as well as insights from civil society groups, NGOs, and think tanks.
Coming soon
Training and learning plan
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