Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… positive climate action, and organisations such as the Council should lead by example. 17 Camden Climate Action Plan 2020-2025 Climate and ecological emergency declaration In October 2019, the Citizens’ Assembly members and groups such as the Sustainers schools network were invited to present the Assembly findings at a Council meeting attended by all local Councillors and Cabinet members…
…: a) declares a climate and ecological emergency; b) commits the Council to take the action it can to make Camden net zero carbon by 2030, taking forward the recommendations of the Camden Climate Emergency Citizens’ Assembly to achieve this, ensuring that Camden’s citizens, businesses, and local organisations are fully involved in the mission to reduce carbon, and pursuing climate action…
… and ecological emergency. The 17 recommendations made by the citizens have fed directly in to this new Climate Action Plan for Camden. We present our four visions for People, Places, Buildings, and Organisations. And we pledge to follow the principles of: basing decisions on evidence; pursuing social justice; demonstrating leadership by example; approaching the challenge as a shared endeavour…
…; and responding with the urgency that the climate emergency requires. Throughout the lifetime of the plan, and aiming to do all we can to reach zero carbon by 2030, Camden Council intends to honour and sustain this participative approach and the relationships we built through this process. The ongoing citizens’ panel that we will convene to review progress is one way of doing this. We will also need…
… reflects not just how we as an organisation are putting the climate emergency at the heart of how we work as a Council, but how it reflects the priorities and ideas of our communities. The climate crisis is the great challenge of our generation and we can only meet it if we call on the creativity and energy of our whole community. I am in awe of the way that community groups, neighbourhoods…