Category: Public Engagement
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October 2021 Newsletter
Here is this month’s Newsletter dominated by two COPs, ie one more than you’ll see in the news. These and other topics covered are: Devon-wide Retrofit survey. COP26 is almost upon us. The Convention on Biological Diversity and COP15. A joint approach to Climate & Ecology. The Devon Climate Assembly Report. ACT Wildlife Wardens. How to farm sustainably.…
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September 2021 Newsletter
After a Summer break a bumper September Newsletter is now ready and waiting covering the following topics: The Great Big Green Week 18-26 September. The IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report. Lottery funding for communities to take action on climate change. Air Pollution. ACT Wildlife Wardens. The Fossil Fuel industry’s hidden failsafe. An economy for climate &…
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The IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report WG1 – findings and background
Introduction This month the UN’s IPCC published the first part of its 6th Assessment Report (AR6). Entitled The Physical Science Basis (for Climate Change) it was written by the IPCC’s Working Group l (WG1), comprising 700 authors from 66 countries, and involving the assessment of 14,000 peer-reviewed studies up to 31 January 2021. Quoting the…
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ACT Newsletter July 2021
Our July Newsletter is now hot off the press covering the following topics: Last Chance to Influence Where New Housing is Built – TDC’s Local Plan – Part 2 (Deadline 9 August) ACT’s Planning Application Tool Catch up with ACT Wildlife Wardens A “Just Transition” to Net Zero The Government unveils its Transport Decarbonisation plan…
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June 2021 Newsletter
The latest Newsletter is now available with a plethora of information and items on the following topics : Membership tidy up. Great Big Green Week 18-26 September 2021. Teignbridge District Council’s Local Plan – Part 2. G7 Protesters are just ordinary people. Teign Estuary Trail. The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill – updated. Jessie’s cycle…
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May 2021 Newsletter
Our latest Newsletter is ready and waiting covering the following topics: How about an Electric Car and Bike Club in Teignmouth? – Including a survey to be completed by 26 May. No mow May. Six months to COP26 – what are the issues? Support the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill – and ask your MP…
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Common interest not self interest
When Greta Thunberg met Sir David Attenborough, as shown on BBC TV recently, she asked him what he would say to young people who think there is no point in saying or doing anything about climate change because no one is listening. He replied that people are listening. “There just could be a change in…
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March 2021 Newsletter
Our latest newsletter is now ready, covering; last week’s Members’ Forum – how you can help us – the benefits of visiting the websites, the mysteries of the “Net” in Net Zero – Devon CC’s Waste Management consultation and the Netflix documentary “Seaspiracy”.
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ACT needs your help
Dear fellow climate champions ACT is planning its strategy over the next 6 months and could really do with some help. We are looking for a few extra people to help out for perhaps an hour or two a week with either committee or hands-on work. You don’t have to be an expert in anything;…
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February 2021 Newsletter
Our latest newsletter is now available covering next month’s members’ forum, help needed with our work with town & parish councils, the economics of biodiversity, the Interim Devon Plan, Bill Gates and his new book, TDC’s progress with the climate & ecological emergencies and the almost failed Green Homes Grant scheme. If you are a…