Our Government’s own advisors on the climate crisis, the Climate Change Committee(CCC) have repeatedly stressed how important our local councils are \u00a0in the fight to reverse the climate change we are now all experiencing with July 2023 just the latest example as the hottest month ever recorded globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2021 in it Net ZeroStrategy, our \u00a0Government said that \u201cdevolved and local government(councils) play an essential role in meeting national net zero ambitions\u201d because it \u201cis best placed to integrate activity on the ground\u201d and to inspire \u201caction by, local businesses, communities, and civil society\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to the CCC, councils, including Derby, \u00a0have either direct power or some influence \u00a0over roughly one third of all climate changing greenhouse gas emissions in their local area. \u00a0 Thats \u00a0control or influence over more than 4 million tonnes of the 13.7 million tonnes of \u00a0carbon dioxide and other climate changing gases released every year<\/strong> in \u00a0Derby. \u00a0<\/p>\n So we should \u00a0be drawing our council’s attention to examples of the imaginative, \u00a0practical and \u00a0effective actions being taken by other councils in the UK to cut greenhouse gas emissions and save their citizens money. \u00a0These councils are achieving this \u00a0despite the lack of money and powers from central government to do so. \u00a0Friends of the Earth have compiled case studies showing what these councils have achieved. \u00a0To be inspired, go to;<\/p>\n https:\/\/groups.friendsoftheearth.uk\/resources\/councils-tackling-climate-chaos<\/p>\n So we should be asking our own council what they are doing to help us all contribute to making \u00a0the drastic cuts in emissions scientists say we need to make by 2030 to avoid catastrophic climate change. – and save us money, now and in the future! \u00a0 \u00a0You can do this by responding to the consultation Derby City Council have launched at;\u00a0<\/p>\n https:\/\/letstalk.derby.gov.uk\/climate-change-background<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our Government’s own advisors on the climate crisis, the Climate Change Committee(CCC) have repeatedly stressed how important our local councils are \u00a0in the fight to reverse the climate change we are now all experiencing with July 2023 just the latest example as the hottest month ever recorded globally.\u00a0 In 2021 in it Net ZeroStrategy, our … Continue reading YOUR DERBY CITY COUNCIL IS CRITICAL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE<\/span>