The Devon Climate Emergency Response Group – made up of Devon’s councils, emergency services and business groups – has set up a Net-Zero Task Force who "want your ideas on how to reduce carbon emissions as quickly as possible."
The Net-Zero Task Force has been tasked with delivering the Devon Carbon Plan.
The Carbon Plan will lay out in stark terms what every resident, organisation and business has to do to reduce emissions and help safeguard the planet for the next generation.
This Call for Evidence is open to everybody, and submissions can be made through the Devon Climate Emergency website, and every submission will be reviewed by the Task Force.
Evidence can be submitted through to early 2020.
Of course, one idea for the Devon Carbon Plan for a start would be for Devon County Council to adhere to their own existing climate change policies. Look at page 36 of the Devon Minerals Plan, for example:
How is Aggregate Industries’ multi-million-mile haulage plan for Straitgate supposed to fit with that... and our existential crisis?
All this comes as the climate crisis is seen as the 'most important issue' by the public, an eight-country poll shows. In the UK, concern about climate change has also reached record levels.
The climate crisis will have a huge impact on racism, division and conflict in future years unless it is tackled now. HOPE not hate has commissioned polling to better understand the issue and how we confront it: https://t.co/hBvJuj6RR2— HOPE not hate (@hopenothate) September 19, 2019
Nick Lowles, from UK-based anti-racism group Hope not Hate, which commissioned the survey, said the findings showed that the public were "way ahead" of politicians in recognising the scale of the climate crisis. "They understand the scale of the problem and want governments to take the strong and decisive action that this emergency requires."
