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Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council

… and travel D. Council’s role / funding / others For low-carbon energy they were offered the following groups: A. Low-carbon energy generation opportunities B. Reducing energy use / energy savings C. Others Ideas for recommendations and draft recommendations were then shared in the large group before participants were offered the chance to join another group for a further round…

… 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…

… 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…

… with commentators for the third chosen theme, ‘encouraging action in council, local community and businesses’. Session 7 was devoted to writing draft recommendations for the first two chosen themes: a) low-carbon energy generation and b) transport. Recommendation writing Prior to session seven, all jury members received a ‘what have we been talking about?’ document. This document brought together…

… a record of the outputs from the low-carbon energy generation and transport sessions, where jury members were asked to share ideas for recommendations or were asked to record what has struck them and things they should remember. Facilitators grouped these into suggested topics. All jury members were given the choice to choose their groups and asked to start drafting recommendations for each…