Labour MPs have been urged to help their constituents to achieve the
10:10 energy efficiency challenge in the coming year.
Climate change secretary Ed Miliband believes that all Labour-led councils should sign up to the
energy efficiency scheme, reports the Guardian.
More than 20,000 individuals have already done so since the official beginning of the year-long effort on September 1st.
The Cabinet, its shadow equivalent and their counterparts from the Liberal Democrat party are all among them, the Guardian adds.
Meanwhile, 500 public bodies - such as schools - and around 1,000 businesses have also pledged to reduce their power consumption by ten per cent by next year.
But Mr Miliband has called for more in a speech delivered to the Labour party conference in Brighton.
He told delegates: "Let's make the transition to low carbon part of our vision of a different kind of country: more prosperous, more secure and fair.
"Fundamentally, we are the people to deliver on this vision because of the society we believe in, because we understand the role of government and markets."
A total of 28 councils had pledged their support by last week when Manchester joined the list.
Five London boroughs, Coventry and Oxford are also among those to have already signed up to the 10:10 commitment.
However, with 423 councils in the UK as a whole, Mr Miliband said he is to work with their representative body, the Local Government Association (LGA), to get more authorities involved.
Energy efficiency is just one area where the LGA works to improve authorities' impact on the environment, however.
It also recently joined the Waste Collection Commitment, an effort to ensure that residents' waste - including that which can be recycled - is collected in an eco-aware manner and subsequently dealt with in accordance with good practice principles.
