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• CO2 calculator
• Reduce your carbon footprint: 10% per year

The climate crisis and what to do about it

• Climate crisis 10-point action plan
• Key points
• IPCC report of 2018: halve emissions by 2030
• Climate change: the basics
• Stop burning fossil fuels: Stay within the budget of 420Gt CO2
• Global emissions are rising and governments are failing
• The rising feeling of desperation
• Simple solutions for the climate crisis, which should have been implemented already

Action needed

• Summary
• Local government
• Local government: Make walking safe
• National government
• Organisations
• Individuals
• Passivhaus home standards
• 'Offsetting'?

False and dubious solutions

• Planting trees
• Tree planting claims by Zurich scientists were withdrawn
• "Hydrogen power"

Awareness raising

• Leaflets, video

Civil disobedience

• Civil disobedience in a democracy: Q and A
• Civil disobedience and the law
• Greta Thunberg and the school strikes
• Extinction Rebellion

Reasons for optimism

• Decline in UK domestic aviation
• Decline of domestic aviation in Sweden

Tecnicalities by sector

• The UK has not cut its greenhouse gas emissions
• International comparisons
• The basics
• Emissions from home energy
• "Green electricity"
• Emissions from cars
• Emissions from food
• Health, education, etc emissions
• Buses
• Trains
• Aviation
• UK average footprint
• References
• Calculator version information

Standards of administration in a democracy

• Effective planning
• Nolan's Seven Principles of Public Life

Performance assessments

• Assessing performance on the climate crisis
• BEIS is not telling the truth on carbon emissions
• Transport for the North: Failing on the climate crisis
• Steve Rotheram: failing on the climate crisis

Best practice examples

• Wirral Council's emission reduction trajectory

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Quotes

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Links

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Information and culture

• Councils should publicize that climate change is an emergency, and should give clear information to residents that fossil fuel use must be phased out by at least 10% per year.
• Councils should act urgently in all areas where they have powers.

Transport

• plan and prioritise around the needs of pedestrians and cyclists e.g. ask where are the worst barriers to walking and cycling and tackle those first - for example, all children should be able to walk safely to school
• publicise the laws that protect pedestrians and cyclist e.g. those (a) giving priority to pedestrians crossing at T junctions, (b) banning pavement parking, (c) banning close overtaking of cyclists
• 20mph speed limits wherever there are significant numbers or walking or cycling journeys
• more pedestrian crossings
• timings at pedestrian crossings should be favourable to pedestrians
• safer junctions for pedestrians including build-outs rather than fast large-radius turns
• protected cycle lanes
• narrow country lanes that are impassable for pedestrians because of high hedges, narrow verges and the speed of traffic can be made safe by constructing new paths and cycle tracks on the field side of the hedge (and adding a new hedge or fence beyond that)

• cancel any new road building that is primarily for motor vehicles
• reduce parking provision
• block rat-runs for motor vehicles, but keep as a pedestrian and cycling throughway - i.e. filtered permeability
• make streets made one-way for motor vehicles (but still two-way for bicycles)
• traffic calming e.g. chicanes and bottleneck from reducing two lanes to a single lane for motor vehicles (without impeding cycling)

• facilitate where possible

• plan on phasing out air travel

• These should not increase car use. The trend to out-of-town shopping centres should be reversed. The need to travel should be reduced.

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