Environment
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Challenging the Government’s hot air over climate change
Today we hold our final district council meeting before the local elections, and I’m supporting a motion backing the Climate and Ecology Emergency Bill, which asks our MP to support the bill through parliament. The measures proposed in this bill, if passed into law, would give us a real chance of averting catastrophic climate change […]
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Declaring a climate emergency: My speech to council
Here is my speech to council supporting the following: To ask Stroud District Council to endorse the ‘Climate Emergency’ announced by the administration on 16 November 2018 and pledge to do everything within the Council’s power to make Stroud District carbon neutral by 2030. In 1976 aged nine years old I sailed across the Atlantic […]
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All talk and no action on energy
AS a member of Gloucestershire Climate Action Network I met Neil Carmichael twice this year to discuss measures to combat climate change, locally and nationally. He told us he supported renewable energy, and mentioned developing carbon capture and community energy schemes as good things. Within months the government had axed support for both of these. […]