Our transition partner, People Powered Homes, is working as part of Climate Action Leeds in the housing sector. Their overall aim is to develop a plan to transform Leeds’ housing sector into one which is compatible with a zero carbon, nature friendly and socially just city as well as contribute to the city-wide just transition road map to ensure cross-sector thinking around climate change.

To achieve this they are working in a number of areas. Firstly, to ensure everyone is on board with the Leeds city-wide plan for transition to a zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just city People Powered Homes will be working and connecting with policy and decision makers, employers, and landlords in the housing sector.

They are doing key mapping work as they identify and connect existing housing related groups and organisations in the city so they can signpost to their services and facilitate collaboration. This work is an integral part of providing our Community Hubs with advice and support on climate related housing issues to allow them to take their own local actions.

This work with the Community Hubs will also be complemented by workshops and resources created in collaboration with other transition partners delivered to both individuals and organisations across Leeds. These sessions and resources will help both groups to make their own homes and buildings more energy efficient and reduce their carbon footprint by looking at topics such as insulation, retrofit, fuel poverty, and the intersections with other issues including nature and energy.

Our transition partner, Hyde Park Source, is working in the nature sector to bring together expertise, insights and action. They are a community organisation that is focused on improving the health and wellbeing of Leeds’ population by improving the natural environment.

They are working towards developing a ‘Green Leeds Action’ plan which is to feed into the city-wide plan, support a community-led response to the Climate Emergency, and move Leeds towards a zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just city by the 2030s.

Hyde Park Source is intent on supporting existing nature based work and networks exist across Leeds by connecting and empowering these people and organisations. It is hoped this will enable and support more nature based activity throughout the city.

Leeds DEC & Angel House

Leeds charity, Leeds Development Education Centre, and grassroots youth organisation, Angel House, are working together in partnership to lead on the development and delivery of a Climate Curriculum and Youth and Education Action Plan for the city.

Naomi is a co-director at a not-for-profit, local bike cooperative, and Hannah is a Car Free Cities campaigner for a climate action charity.

Hannah and Naomi are working together with project partner, Leeds Tidal, to deliver a just transition within the transport and mobility sector.

Building on that history, ‘just transition’ is now used more widely to refer to the push for a transition to economies that provide dignified, productive and ecologically sustainable livelihoods that are governed directly by workers and communities.

​We see this pathway, from the extractive economy towards a regenerative economy, as our best means towards addressing root causes and achieving a just, sustainable and zero carbon Leeds by the 2030s.

Credit goes to Decolonizing Economics and Movement Generation for their definition and framework. View full Movement Generation document 'A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition' (pdf).