Place Shaping in a Low Carbon Future
Drivers for local authorities to create low carbon places are varied and forceful.
The Environment Council and OPM (Office for Public Management) are working together to help those who have responsibilities for place-shaping or environmental services within a local authority, or work in partnership those who do, to explore the future of local authorities’ place-shaping role in the context of significant carbon constraints.
We aim to help these people identify barriers to carbon reduction for their localities and consider how these might be overcome, using existing place-shaping tools, to create thriving low-carbon places.
On 20 March, we co-hosted a sucessful ‘Carbon Conversation’, to help participants achieve this. Please click here (.pdf, 2246KB) for the invitation. To see a graphic record of discussions and outcomes of this lively and interesting process, please click here.
Please click here (.pdf, 96KB) for a briefing paper on the innovative partnership between The Environment Council and OPM.
Following the event, The Environment Council and OPM will be working with partners on a range of wider tools and processes to help local public agencies and their communities find common and sustainable solutions to tackling high emissions.
For local authorities and localities this is an opportunity to inspire real action to create a low carbon place through:
| > | understanding the complexity of the challenges we face and the most effective responses to those challenges through in-depth discussions with experts |
| > | learning from the best practice of other localities |
| > | understanding, engaging and inspiring community members to work with and support the local authority’s obligations to tackle this issue |
| > | creating a forum for joint action between local government, businesses, voluntary organisations and the public |