Climate emergency demonstration with councillors Tony Page and Jason Brock Two years since Reading Borough Council’s (RBC) climate emergency declaration, what has been achieved? The climate emergency declaration committed the council to play ‘as full a role as possible’ and ‘lead by example’ in achieving a carbon neutral Reading by 2030. The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) spoke to three climate campaigning groups to find out their view on the council’s record since the declaration in February 2019. And we spoke to RBC lead member for Environment Cllr Tony Page to get his response. Cllr Page said: “I think we will meet the 2030 target but it won’t be easy and it will require government support or the ability for us to raise more money locally to invest in projects that enable us to produce a cleaner and green environment locally.”