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London Borough of Lambeth

… In January 2019, Lambeth Council declared a climate emergency and committed to ensuring the Council’s operations were carbon neutral by 2030. As well as being responsible for reducing its own carbon emissions the Council recognised its role in bringing together residents, partners, businesses, voluntary, community and faith groups to agree on how to reduce carbon emissions across the borough…

…. In February 2020, Lambeth Council appointed Traverse to design and run Lambeth’s Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change. The aim of the Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change was to develop a set of recommendations for the borough to reduce carbon emissions to net zero. Between May and July 2021, 47 Lambeth residents engaged in the Assembly through online workshops and activities. Below…

… Page 4 Open Final - Version 24/08/2021 1. Introduction 1.1. Background and context In January 2019, Lambeth Council declared a climate emergency and committed to ensuring the Council’s operations were carbon neutral by 2030. As well as being responsible for reducing its own carbon emissions the Council recognised its role in bringing together residents, partners, businesses…

…, voluntary, community and faith groups to agree on how to reduce carbon emissions across the borough. Reducing emissions across Lambeth will require dramatic changes in the ways that homes, businesses and the public sector function. The Council and its local partners have therefore sought to involve the wider public in helping to think through what those changes should look and feel like. One…

… for citizens in reducing carbon emissions 3. To explore the trade-offs involved in reducing carbon emissions and how this might affect support for carbon reduction measures, and the principles we should apply to developing carbon reduction policy 4. To develop a set of recommendations for the borough to reduce carbon emissions to net zero To meet these aims and objectives, the Assembly…