Public Consultation on the Devon Carbon Plan: A ‘Net-Zero Task Force’ are creating an evidence-led Devon Carbon Plan which will consider the earliest, credible date which should be set for net-zero emissions. There is a public consultation on the draft interim Devon Carbon Plan. Click here to read a summary –and then have your say,…
“Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality”, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the…
POSTPONED: South Brent Climate Fair 2020 – initially scheduled for Saturday 18 April this event, long planned by Sustainable South Brent supported by South Brent Parish Council, Rattery Parish Council and South Brent Community Energy Society, was postponed during the lockdown until Saturday 5 September 2020. However, in view of the continuing uncertainty about such…
Climate Change Action: a Global Day of Climate Action was held on Friday 20 September 2019. Millions of school children and students around the globe have struck to demand an end to the age of fossil fuels and climate justice for everyone. At the beginning of a week of actions, today’s Climate Strike, with the…
Video of Greta Thunberg’s speech to the French National Assembly on 23 July 2019
“Unite behind the science” (12 mins)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2412771489046644
At the first meeting of its new council on 20th May 2019, South Brent Parish Council resolved to declare an ‘Environment and Climate Emergency’. Prompted by a letter from SSB trustees, this was in the context of Devon County Council and the UK Parliament having declared similar emergencies. It is also in the context of…