Carbon conversations: post-event blog
On 20 March, The Environment Council and the Office for Public Management (OPM) held ‘Carbon Conversations: Place-shaping In A Low Carbon Future' and brought experts from across the fields of local sustainability together to ask key questions on sustainability. Outputs and an ongoing blog from the event are now accessible on-line.
Questions addressed on the day were:
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How can local strategic partnerships and local authorities create sustainable communities that work socially, environmentally and economically? |
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And, more crucially, how can they do it while rising to the challenge of a low carbon future? |
The event was a great success and participants enjoyed developing ways forward to creating ‘places that work’ via this lively and interesting process. To see the graphic record of the event, which gives a dynamic summary of the discussions on the day, please click here.
This Carbon Conversation isn’t a one-off event. We are very keen to continue developing and improving the process, and to deliver real change in local areas.
To that end our partners at OPM have added a blog to their website (http://myblog.opm.co.uk/?p=30) that sets out where we will go from here. Specifically, OPM and the Environment Council are offering three packages of support for you to hold a Carbon Conversation in your area:
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We can design and facilitate a bespoke event for your local strategic partnership, business, local authority and/or community groups. |
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We can offer a training programme and 'Carbon Conversations toolkit' to enable you to run an event yourself. |
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We can build a Carbon Conversation into a wider programme of strategy development for your local area and/or organisation, for example as part of the process of developing a climate change strategy that will really deliver. |
To learn more about Carbon Conversations and our work with OPM please click here.