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Kate Josephs interviewed: From the White House to Steel City
After holding key roles in Washington DC and Whitehall, Kate Josephs’ new priority is to ‘shout louder about Sheffield’.
While some people dream of catapulting their local government career onwards to the national and even the international political stage, Kate Josephs, who took over as chief executive of Sheffield City Council in January, has done things the other way around.
The daughter of social workers from Doncaster, Ms Josephs joined Sheffield from the Cabinet Office, where she held the position of director general of the Covid-19 taskforce. As well as several other senior UK civil service roles, Ms Josephs’ career has also taken in the US system, including as executive director of the White House Performance Improvement Council.
Hull s fortunes have been transformed by the presence of Siemens in the city.
It’s also timely as Britain, and other countries, begin, tentatively, to emerge from the pandemic and realise, after a year like no other in recent history, that the crisis facing the environment is even greater, with the potential to claim even more lives, than Covid-19. It has not gone away; it’s only been masked – briefly – by the virus.
And while very few countries were adequately prepared for a pandemic on this scale, Yorkshire – at the very least – is well-placed to put clean energy, and the environment, at the heart of its recovery mission as political leaders look to rebuild the economy. It now needs to maximise this and the Commission can play a key role. Home to Siemens, which is leading the way when it comes to offshore wind, and world-leading facilities like the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre on the site of the former Orgreave plant, this region already has an abundance of
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Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission gets to work
An independent advisory group has been launched to support ambitious climate action in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission brings together a team of climate leaders from across public, private and third sectors in what is the largest regional commission of its kind in the UK.
Professor Andy Gouldson, Executive Dean at the University Of Leeds’ Faculty of Environment, is director of the new commission and will oversee its work.
Chaired by Liz Barber, CEO of Yorkshire Water, the commission aims to help the region reduce its carbon emissions as quickly as possible and ensure that people in Yorkshire are prepared to cope with the growing impacts of climate change, such as heatwaves, flooding and sea level rise.
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