An independent evaluation of Liverpool’s year as the world’s first UN Climate Change Accelerator City reveals what worked, what didn’t, and what cities need to do to decarbonise their cultural sectors through place-based climate action. This report was written by Dr Lois Pennington, Professor Carly McLachlan, Dr Sarah Mander and Dr Chris Jones, researchers in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, at the University of Manchester.