The top team of environmental experts who have been charged with ensuring that Devon becomes a net-zero county want your ideas on how to reduce carbon emissions as quickly as possible.
The Net-Zero Task Force has been appointed by the Devon Climate Emergency Response Group – made up of Devon’s councils, emergency services and business groups - to deliver the Devon Carbon Plan.
The Carbon Plan will lay out in stark terms what every resident, organisation and business has to do to reduce emissions and help safeguard the planet for the next generation.
This Call for Evidence is open to everybody, and submissions can be made through the Devon Climate Emergency website, and every submission will be reviewed by the Task Force.
Submissions will feed into the creation of the Carbon Plan, which includes a series of thematic hearings in November and December.
Each hearing will focus on the different parts of our society that produce most of the emissions, like transport for instance.
The hearings will seek to understand what needs to happen and what we all need to do to achieve rapid decarbonisation in Devon, and how it can be delivered.
Then the Task Force will present a series of ‘options’ to a Citizen’s Assembly - and the deliberations of the Citizen’s Assembly will lead to the Draft Devon Carbon Plan, which is due for publication next spring.
