Ilkley Town Council Declare Climate Emergency
At the December 2nd 2019 meeting the Council declared an emergency.
Read Declaration
Ilkley Sustainability Plan
This sustainability plan was commissioned by Ilkley Council’s Neighbourhood Development Plan working group in November 2018.
The plan has been drafted by Climate Action Ilkley with input from a number of local organisations all of whom have endorsed the document. They are listed on the opening page. Climate Action Ilkley are now calling on the Town Council to formally adopt the plan before the the referendum on the Neighbourhood Development Plan in May 2021.
You can read the plan here
Communicating Climate Change
Climate Outreach is an Oxford based organisation set up to promote the effective communication of climate change and therefore very relevant for us.
Quoting from their website they focus on:-
“finding ways to talk about climate change across the political spectrum; changing the way millions of people see climate change; accelerating understanding of how to mainstream low-carbon lifestyles; ”
If you follow these links you will find your way to reports like “Communicating effectively with the centre-right about household energy efficiency”
One of these reports Climate-Outreach-CASPI-Mainstreaming-low-carbon-lifestyles has a case study on page 8 “engaging centre-right audiences around reduced flying”. In the case study they suggest the words you should and shouldn’t use for an audience with centre-right values.
Ideas for Insulating your Home
Andy Walker, home insulation specialist, visits a Victorian/Edwardian property in York to explain how the insulation of the house can be improved.
List of councils who have declared Climate Emergency
If you are researching what other towns are doing about climate emergency this MySociety list is a good place to start. I have added Ilkley to the list(Ed).
List of Towns
Best Climate Change Books
Interviews with eminent scientists discussing climate change and the best books to learn more
Links to the Bigger Picture
Thanks to Rob Knipe for these links:-
Following last night’s discussions from Steve’s question about the ‘bigger picture’ – below are a few links to the projects I mentioned.
Please let me know if I can help with more.
- Divestment and New Investment Idea: Jeremy Leggett – Early stage idea to set up a company, called ‘ZeroCarbon Revolution’, Recent Cambridge Lecture: https://climateseries.com/home-blog/52-ccls2020-jeremy-leggett
- H21 The Hydrogen Economy Project for the NE: This is a link to the section that highlights the Leeds City planning part (there are more general H21 Project links as well): https://www.h21.green/projects/downloads/
Hydrogen in your gas supply
Keele University are running a pilot project to research the acceptability of injecting hydrogen into your gas supply – with positive results. Read about it here
The Royal Society issued a paper “Options for producing low-carbon hydrogen” in 2018. Read this paper (or at least the conclusions on page 27) here
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Hydrogen says:-
“Hydrogen will play a key role in shaping our future economy and our ability to meet our net-zero targets, the only question that remains, is when.”
Their report is well presented and provides a good background to the issues including how hydrogen can be produced – Blue v Green. It’s 32 pages but worth a read if you are interested. You can view or download it here 20.07.15 Hydrogen-APPG-Report-2020