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Climate Assembly report hailed as ‘clarion call’ for action Frequent flier schemes should be scrapped, the Climate Assembly suggested (Chris Radburn/PA) A new report containing more than 80 recommendations on how Scotland should tackle climate change has been hailed as a “clarion call” for action. Scotland’s Climate Assembly is demanding action to reduce emissions across a whole range of areas – with calls for a ban on single use plastics “unless there is no viable alternative”. To encourage people out of their cars, it calls for public transport to be made “cheaper, or free...

A new role overseeing climate change has been created on Devon County Council's Cabinet for the first time as leader John Hart re-shuffles his team.

Be sure to have your say - Credit: DCC 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 Pl...

Curious Films and Picture Zero are producing for BBC iPlayer The People vs Climate Change, a documentary that centers on the U.K. Climate Assembly.

Curious Films and Picture Zero have joined forces on The People vs Climate Change, a one-hour doc for UK streamer BBC iPlayer and international distribution. The copro follows the UK Climate Assembly, a panel of people from all walks of life brought together to help decide how the country can reach net zero by 2050. The doc tracks the panel’s 108 members as they debate the challenges of tackling the climate crisis in a fair way, and make proposals to Parliament. The film also explores their personal journeys as they learn more about the science, and illustrates how people formerly disenga...