To: Wells, Michelle
Subject: RE: Blueprint Coalition letter to council leaders
From: Blueprint
Coalition <mike.childs@friendsoftheearth.vuelio.co.uk>
Sent: 20 November 2020 15:43
To: Cooper, Sue <Sue.Cooper@southoxon.gov.uk>
Subject: Blueprint Coalition letter to council leaders
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Please support the call for more resources and powers for
councils to deliver on climate change. We are writing to you as a coalition
of council organisations, environment groups, and others which has been
formed to make a concerted push to secure more powers and resources for local
authorities to deliver on climate change. In 2019 many councils up and down
the country passed motions declaring a climate and ecological emergency or
expressed determination to act through other means. Of course, the Covid-19
pandemic continues to dominate the attention of councils in 2020 and will do
for some time yet. But we know that the clock is ticking and the window of
opportunity to stop the worst impacts of climate change is shortening.
Thankfully, action to radically reduce carbon emissions can also help
covid-19 economic recovery, creating new jobs, supporting the growth of the
businesses and industries of the future, and delivering health benefits such
as cleaner air. We have produced a blueprint for the changes needed, drawing on inputs from
councillors and council officers gathered through conferences and seminars
organised by the LGA and the Association of Directors of Environment,
Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) and through our networks. The
blueprint is not intended to be the final word, but rather as a starting
point for constructive and meaningful discussion with government. We are sure you would agree that the
government’s climate change targets cannot be met without the full and active
participation of local councils.
While you can take some actions right now it is also true that like other
councils you need more resources and powers to fully deliver. We are writing to you to ask you to
support a push to get the powers and resources councils need. Please can you sign-up your council to support the call for more
powers and resources so you can fully deliver on climate change in your area.
It is very quick and easy to do so
by filling out this form on the ADEPT website. By doing so you will you join the
other 38 councils that already have done so from across the political
spectrum. Thank you. Yours sincerely, Nigel Riglar, President, Association of Directors of Environment, Economy,
Planning and Transport (ADEPT) Sharon Kemp, policy spokesperson for
environment and climate change, Solace Dan Jones, Chair, London
Environmental Directors Network Harriet Lamb CBE, CEO, Ashden Professor Sam Fankhauser, Principal Investigator, Place-Based Climate Action Network
(PCAN) Professor Martin Siegert and Professor Ralf Toumi ,
Co-Directors, Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Miriam Turner and Hugh Knowles, Co-CEO, Friends of the Earth John Sauvan, Executive Director, Greenpeace Sent by Friends of the Earth via Vuelio |
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