To: Charlbury Town Council
The UK Government has now put into law that the UK has a target of "net-zero greenhouse gas emissions" by 2050. The scientific consensus is that radical change must come much sooner, and start immediately, with 2030 an ambitious but necessary target date.
We call on Charlbury Town Council to:
1) Declare that it recognizes an Environment and Climate Emergency
2) Examine the Council's current and future policies and decisions to ensure that they are consistent with averting further climate change and ecological collapse
3) Use its scope for influence within the community and with other stakeholders to encourage and promote the rapid transition to a sustainable local economy and a low carbon energy and transport system
4) To open discussions with local businesses, landowners and voluntary groups, and with the district and county councils, on how all can work together to deliver significant change
Date: July 2019
