Be sure to have your say
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Fourteen thousand randomly selected Devon households are being invited to enter a ‘civic lottery’ to determine who represents the county at this summer’s Devon Climate Assembly.
Over the next week invitations will drop through letterboxes giving households the chance to help shape and safeguard Devon’s future.
It follows the recent public consultation of the Interim Devon Carbon Plan, the county’s climate roadmap which outlines what every resident, business and organisation will have to do to reduce carbon emissions.
The Interim Carbon Plan is being developed by the Devon Climate Emergency Response Group (DCERG) - a partnership of Devon’s councils, emergency services, voluntary organisations, and business groups. The group has set a target for Devon to be carbon-neutral no later than 2050.
Patrick Devine-Wright
Professor Patrick Devine-Wright, Chair of the Net Zero Task Force
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Patrick Devine-Wright, chairman of the county council s net zero task force, writes for this title
Earlier this month Devon Climate Emergency (DCE) launched the Interim Devon Carbon Plan consultation.
The carbon plan will lay out what every person, every business and every organisation in Devon must do to lower carbon emissions and to achieve net-zero. It also highlights the wider opportunities doing so presents.
The plan is evidence-led and considers the suggestions made by the public earlier this year.
Given what we all have had to endure in terms of lives and livelihoods lost this year, it’s understandable that the Climate Emergency has not been in the forefront of all our thoughts.