Hackney Council taxpayers, breathe easy. The fight against global climate change will be fought hardest, not on a global or even national level, but, er, by the emergency responders at the local council, apparently. The local authority’s apparatchiks are advertising for a ‘climate change director’ to enact their ‘climate action plan: a five-point action memorandum that Hackney hopes will turn heads in big pollutin’ states like the US, China and India.
The incentive for the right candidate? A whopping £145,193 salary. Mr S imagines this to be reflection of the scope and depth of Hackney’s climate response. After all, that’s £30,000 more than Graham Stuart, the Minister for Climate Change and Net Zero, will be banking this year, the national effort somewhat tame by comparison.
The right candidate, whom Steerpike imagines will cycle to work and avoid unnecessary air travel, will be charged with ‘ensuring Hackney is prepared for and resilient to the impacts of the climate emergency – like flooding or hot weather’, adding solar panels to the borough’s roofs, creating a new green economy in the borough (residents should expect to be buried in biodegradable human seed pods), and ‘helping local ecosystems thrive’.
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