The Friends of the Earth nationally launched their Get Serious about CO2 campaign a little while back to highlight the need of councils to act on climate change, most specifically by working towards a 40% cut in carbon emissions by 2020.
The local Bristol branch of FoE have put together an excellent short video about what the Council could and should be doing, with support from local people and national government. It runs for just over 5 minutes and it's really well put together. You can watch it below :
As a member of Friends of the Earth myself, I have submitted a motion for the meeting of Full Council on 15th September calling on my colleagues of all parties to adopt the main points on the FoE campaign. I'm told by my FoE contacts that they are now using my drafting as something of a model for other parts of the country, which is quite flattering! When I have a little more time and have finalised the wording, I'll put it up here on my blog.
One of the key things to remember is that neither Bristol nor its council can go it alone. We can only reduce our own carbon footprint as a city by 40% if national government makes big steps forward itself to, for example, decarbon electricity production (by increasing the use of renewables) or promote alternative means of powering cars.
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