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…. The council itself is taking action to lower carbon use by making energy efficiency improvements in council buildings, installing solar panels and electric vehicle chargers and providing grants and advice to businesses and organisations looking to make low carbon improvements. “However, the council can’t do this on its own. It is going to require the efforts of the whole community, including…

… results are telling us?’ Time permitting participants also shared the pros and cons of choosing different themes and asked if they felt additional themes should be formed. A final poll was then held which revealed two clear priorities; a) low carbon energy generation b) transport. The third priority theme was tied between green spaces and natural carbon sinks, and encouraging action…

… recorded and themed jury members’ suggested ideas for themes to focus on over the course of the jury process. These themes were then put into a temperature check poll for jury members to vote on. The Furness Citizens’ Jury on Climate Change 2021/22 Session five Session 5 was the first session after the December break. Jurors heard from commentators on their first chosen theme: low-carbon…

… energy generation. Commentators: Low-carbon Energy Generation Video footage of all the presentations can be found here. After hearing from all the commentators, jury members joined small groups with a commentator of their choice for two rounds of conversation. Jury members then had the final opportunity to ask the commentators questions in a large group question- and-answer session…

…. Participants then spent some time in individual silent reflection to consider any ideas they may have for low-carbon energy related recommendations before sharing and discussing these in small groups. These ideas were recorded by facilitators and sent to the jurors as a summary of ideas ahead of the recommendations writing phase of the process. At the end of the session, participants were given…