Cara Jenkinson is part of the Ashden Liveable Cities team which works with UK towns and cities to help them realise their sustainability ambitions. Ashden runs a network of city region sustainability officers, and has published a Climate Action Co-benefits toolkit for local authorities (co-authored by Cara) and "31 climate actions for councils", published in partnership with Friends of the Earth. Cara is also director of a community energy group and has an Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment MSc from UCL.