Main Room
- 10am Welcome from Mayor & short speeches
- 11am Turning Resolutions into action - Alan Simpson
- 12pm What does a Green New Deal mean for the UK?
- 1.30pm Roger Hallam - Extinction Rebellion
- 2pm Making & implementing a Plan - Cllr. Simon Pickering
- 3pm Practical steps to Zero Carbon - FOE & others
Welcome from Mayor Cllr. Andy Kay, Cllr. Darren Clifford, Cllr. Kevin Frea (Lancaster City Council); Paul Allen, Project Coordinator, Zero Carbon Britain; Hazel Graham, Chief Executive, Cumbria Action for Sustainability; Cllr. Simon Pickering, Stroud; Cllr Colin Glover, Leader Carlisle City Council; Ada Wood, Carlisle Youth Strike Organiser; Other Workshop Leaders.
Climate Emergency: turning resolutions into action As a succession of local authorities pass ‘climate emergency’ motions, the difficult questions are ‘what happens next?’ and ”what powers and duties do we need?’. This workshop will look at some of the lessons we might draw from elsewhere. (Alan Simpson)
What does the Green New Deal mean for the UK? The Green New Deal has swept onto the US political scene and changed the terms of the debate. Could the same happen in the UK? This workshop will look at how activists and others can work toward a UK Green New Deal (Andrew Simms, Becky Willis, Jamie Driscoll, Clara Paillard, Natalie Bennett, Hazel Graham).
The Extinction Rebellion campaign and sortition. Join Conference
Creating & implementing a carbon zero plan the issues a Council may need to consider and examples from ‘carbon neutral’ Stroud (Cllr Simon Pickering, Chair of Environment Committee, Stroud District Council).
Room 2
- 11am Carbon Targets into Local Plans Sam Hunter-Jones
- 2pm Engaging with Young People Lancaster Youth For Environment
- 3pm Campaigning Strategies Natalie Bennett +
Getting carbon targets into Local Plans. Why councils should be including carbon reduction targets in their Local Plans by reference to the various legal duties and policy requirements, as well as touching on why doing so can be a transformative step. (Sam Hunter Jones, Lawyer, Client Earth).
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Engaging young people in the ‘climate emergency’ campaign and implementation of motions. Lancaster Youth For Environment
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Campaigning strategies to get your Council to declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ How to get ‘Declaring a Climate Emergency on the agenda, how to communicate with and support sympathetic Councillors, how to ensure that a strong motion is passed.
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Room 3
- 11am Zero Carbon Britain -Paul Allen
- 12pm Building the local climate emergency movement - Alan Simpson
- 2pm Can we transform the world by 2030? Andrew Simms, Rapid Transition Alliance
- 3pm Communicating Climate Change - Jan Maskell, Scientists for Global Responsibility
Zero Carbon Britain explores the technical, cultural, social, economic and political landscapes – looking at ways of overcoming barriers to change.(Paul Allen, Centre for Alternative Technology & Zero Carbon Britain).
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From Opposition to Proposition: building the local climate emergency movement The session will look at how climate protests offer localities the chance to re-found local democracy; turning protest movements into propositional ones. For local authorities, the challenge is to offer more meaningful levels of citizen engagement. For social movements, it is to find positive roles that link the personal and local with bigger structural changes that we all need. (Alan Simpson, Shadow Chancellor’s Advisor on Sustainable Economics).
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Can we transform the world by 2030? A rapid transition, including widespread behaviour change to sustainable lifestyles, is necessary to live within planetary ecological boundaries and to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees. (Andrew Simms, Author, Political Economist and Campaigner, Rapid Transition Alliance).
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Communicating Climate Emergency – What on Earth can your organisation do?’ As major decision makers, influencers, role models and actors in supply chains, Local Authorities have a key part to play in encouraging other organisations to consider their impact on the environment. How can this be communicated effectively at different levels Dr. Jan Maskell, Scientists for Global Responsibility).
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Committee Room A
- 11am Health effects of Climate Change - Dr. Hayley Pinto.
- 12pm Land Use & Carbon Capture - Paul Allen & Mike Berners-Lee
- 2pm Wasted: Food, Wellbeing & Climate - Martin Paley+
- 3pm Citizen Assemblies & Citizen's Juries - Peter Bryant
Health effects of Climate Change Why climate change threatens catastrophic impacts to human health but could be the greatest global opportunity of the century – the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on physical and mental health health and the potential co-benefits of concerted action. (Dr. Hayley Pinto, mother & doctor).
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Land Use & Carbon Capture changing land use so that carbon is captured rather than emitted (Paul Allen & Mike Berners-Lee)
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Wasted: food, wellbeing and climate. Drawing on Lancaster as a case study, we will explore how local authorities can integrate action around climate change, poverty and food waste. (Martin Paley +)
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Citizen’s Assemblies & Citizen’s Juries Citizens’ Assemblies (50-200 people) and Citizen’s Juries (20-30 people) can enable a randomly selected group of the public to devise a plan for tackling climate change. Such a process can give the mandate to politicians to take action as well as mobilising local people for action. Peter has run over thirty Juries on a range of topics from Fracking to Alcohol harm and in this participatory workshop will explore what the process could look like at a local level and its potential impact.(Peter Bryant, Shared Future CIC).
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Good! Lots of coming together, with a sharing of ideas, plans, concerns, etc. can produce a better outcome than a single group focusing on particular issues. The whole Scenario is engrained in the interconnected attributes of the Earth’s environmental, etc. culture. Long-term consequences and ongoing effects should be included in every fundamental domain and project, and also, I think getting to the Root Cause/the Big Why of every harmful and fragmenting issue should be included so as to know what to avoid, and what is a healthy way forward. I would love to share articles I’ve written on all this.