Although the general public’s awareness of climate change is at an all time high, with 85% of Briton’s stating they are concerned about climate change, there are challenges to translate this concern action.
Our region is committed to public engagement and we’ve seen this though:
- Public engagement to inform local authority-led climate change strategies
- The North of Tyne Combined Authority’s Citizen’s Assembly which issued a collective statement and set of recommendations on how to tackle climate change.
- The North East Local Enterprise Partnership’s ongoing and extensive engagement with businesses and partners to inform and the North East Strategic Economic Plan. The Plan details commitments to drive renewable energy and low carbon vehicles forward and acknowledges the global agreement in Paris.
- The Environmental Leaders Network bringing together the sector to inform and deliver the Environment Plan
- The recently North East England Climate Coalition being established to co-ordinate collective public campaigns and opportunities for action towards a vision of ‘becoming England’s Greenest Region’ with an ambition to drive a step-change in capacity and delivery.
- The Voluntary Organisations Network North East (VONNE) and the VONNE Climate Action Alliance (VCAA) are committed to delivering critical messaging and campaign work to reach key audiences.