Blackburn with Darwen Council's People’s Jury on climate change has selected its first three priority themes.
The 32-strong citizen's panel chose communication and education, transport and buildings as the topics for future sessions.
The debates will help shape their final recommendations of what can be done across Blackburn with Darwen to tackle the climate change crisis.
The briefs for the three themes selected are:
* Communication and education; focussing on this at both an individual and organisational level, jury members want to not only look at the ‘usual’ methods of informing, such as websites but thinking beyond this to drive sincere engagement and prolonged behaviour change;
* Transport; delving into what informs decision-making when it comes to public transport, what the options are for active travel and how to improve the current public transport offering and incentivise people to use it; and
* Buildings; understanding planning regulations locally – including carbon neutral and environmentally friendly requirements - and examining positive examples of buildings and homes in other areas and how these are achieved.
Jury members will meet for 30 hours between September and December 2022, with the task of forming a set of recommendations on what organisations and residents across the borough could be doing to help tackle the issue of climate change.
The sessions are being facilitated and run by Shared Future CIC, one of the UK’s leading experts in organising People’s Juries.
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