The council can use its own funds through cash or direct investment to finance a project.

The use of council funds for Net Zero projects needs to be balanced against the needs of other mandated responsibilities, such as adult social care. The same issue was also reflected in our research with regard to the need to divert funds to properly resource climate and sustainability teams. Local authorities across the UK are also in very different financial positions and have widely different levels of commercial capability and internal resource, which are also major factors in successful project implementation through this financing route.

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