CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate Change is at the centre of many of our policy sections. Generally, the following is required:

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Declare Climate Emergency

The Green Party supported the Labour motion for Derbyshire County Council to declare a climate emergency. I sat in the council chamber and watched the leader of the Conservative group give a speech that bordered on climate change denial as they voted it down. In 2019. The Whaley Bridge crisis occurred weeks later.

A motion needs to be brought again, and councillors of all parties should vote for it.

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Mitigate Flooding and Drought

Regardless of what we do, we will have to live with increased severe weather events for the rest of our lifetimes. The Council should start mitigation actions now, before more loss of life occurs in Derbyshire.

Please see this blog post for more details.

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Adopt a Climate Action Plan

After declaring a Climate Emergency, the council must adopt and commit to a detailed Action Plan of the type proposed by the national coalition of climate action groups.

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The Derbyshire Green Party are signed up to the Derbyshire Climate Coalition pledge:

"If elected, I pledge to ensure that our council works with the community to rapidly implement a Climate Action Plan which strives to cut carbon emissions drastically by 2030, and that the climate and ecological emergency is a central consideration in all council actions."