Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… time. Three months later, after some thirty hours of discussion, learning, listening, challenging, arguing, sharing, and deliberating, they produced a set of 31 recommendations on how to address the climate emergency in the Furness area. 5,000 letters were sent to randomly chosen addresses across the borough inviting people to join the jury. Sixty people registered their interest. Twenty…
… insights into how we should respond to the climate emergency. “I want to thank everyone who volunteered to take part in the Furness Climate Change Citizens’ Jury and all those businesses and organisations who came together to form the Oversight Panel for the process. “The recommendations that have been created by the jury will be considered formally by the council and where we can, we will act…
…. For recommendations outside of the control of the council, we will work with our partners and the Oversight Panel to influence and progress actions which will not only address the climate emergency but will also make the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness a better place to live, work and visit, now and into the future.” The Furness Citizens’ Jury on Climate Change 2021/22 Background What…
… is a Citizens’ Jury? The Furness Citizens’ Jury on Climate Change is one of a growing number of similar processes aiming to meaningfully engage with citizens on how to address the challenge of the climate emergency. Typically, processes such as this (e.g. citizens juries and assemblies) bring together a diverse group of between twenty and 150 members of the public to consider a particular question…
… and produce a set of recommendations. The members, chosen through a lottery, reflect the diversity of the local population and can be viewed as a mini version of the wider public. This engagement is a valuable process for strengthening our policy responses to the climate emergency because often members of such processes are people who may not normally take part in public consultations…