Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… of full council, Lancaster City Council declared a climate emergency. The motion included the following ‘Lancaster City Council has already committed to reducing carbon emissions to zero by 2050, but the recent IPCC Report shows it is imperative that this target is reached much sooner. Lancaster City Council can play its role. Business as usual is clearly no longer an option. We need…
… of the House of Commons establish a national deliberative process; the Climate Assembly UK mirroring a similar process in France, as well as local processes in Oxford, Camden, Newham and two others (organised by Shared Future) in Leeds and Kendal. The guide ‘Climate assemblies and juries: a people powered response to the climate emergency’, attempts to bring together some of the learning…
… from processes at a local level. What is a People’s Jury? Responding to the climate emergency is the biggest challenge for policymakers in modern times. Designing processes to ensure that citizen voice is at the centre of such policies is equally daunting. All too often the role of the citizen is at best relegated to that of the respondent, responding to a narrowly framed set…
…-and-juries-a-people-powered-response-to-the-climate-emergency/ https://sharedfuturecic.org.uk/climate-assemblies-and-juries-a-people-powered-response-to-the-climate-emergency/ Lancaster district Climate Change People’s Jury 2020 5 ‘Deliberation includes exchanges between two or more people around a common topic…
… as a Citizens’ Jury and is smaller in size than a Citizens’ Assembly. The Lancaster district Climate Change People’s Jury attempted to put citizens at the centre of designing a response to the climate emergency. Thirty residents from across the city region were recruited to answer the question: ‘What do we need to do in our homes, neighbourhoods and districts to respond to the emergency…