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Kendal Climate Change Citizens Jury
Kendal, England, United Kingdom
Aim
Kendal Town Council declared a Climate Emergency in 2019, this was their first action to engage residents.
There's an urgent need for change. Here's something you can do to help.
The UK’s first ever Citizens Jury at a town level has been a huge success! Thank you to all the Crowdfunder supporters from February 2020.
20 Kendal residents attended 10 Jury sessions to learn more about Climate Change in order to answer the question ‘What should Kendal do about Climate Change?’.
To introduce the topic Jury members heard from national experts including Chris Stark, the Chief Executive of the UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC), Professor Becky Willis and Professor Mike Berners Lee. Armed with new information and climate change understanding, Jury members independently decided to focus on three key areas (energy production, transport and food and farming) to help answer the overarching question. A further nine well respected commentators shared their expertise in these key areas. All the commentator presentations are available on the Kendal Climate Change Citizens Jury website here and via facebook here.
Next steps
The Jury members are currently writing their recommendations to answer ‘What should Kendal do about Climate Change?’.
We are committed to making sure the time and dedication of the Jury is honoured and results in positive changes in Kendal. The Citizen’s Jury is first and foremost a passion project – we want to ensure that the voices of our jurors’ are heard.
We want to raise funds to create a short film to promote the Jury’s recommendations and engage the key organisations they call upon for change.
We have launched an other Crowdfunder project - VIEW HERE.
This project successfully funded on 11th March 2020