Teignbridge Specific Links
- What Teignbridge District Council can already do
- Adjusting Energy for Zero Carbon
- Carbon Overview for Teignbridge
- What does the Paris Climate Change Agreement mean for Teignbridge
- ACT Comments on the Climate Change section of the Local Plan Review (Nov 2019)
- ACT Response to the Local Plan Review (June 2020)
- Land projected to be below Annual Flood Level in 2050
- ACT response to Dartmoor National Park consultation
National Links
How climate friendly is your area?https://takeclimateaction.uk/climate-action/how-climate-friendly-your-area-enter-your-postcode-see-results-your-community
Additional Background Information and Resources
General
- https://www.ashden.org/programmes/co-benefits Ashden Sustainable Solutions, Better Lives is a charity set up by Sarah Butler-Sloss to raise awareness of sustainable energy to combat climate change and energy poverty. The link here is to ideas for climate actions for councils.
- Regen’s Neighbourhood Planning Guide
- https://www.regen.co.uk/publications/swansea-bay-city-region-a-renewable-energy-future/
- https://es.catapult.org.uk/news/local-area-energy-planning-key-to-minimising-decarbonisation-costs/
- https://www.devon.gov.uk/energyandclimatechange/devon-climate-emergency-response-group has moved to https://www.devonclimateemergency.org.uk/
- Rising to the Climate Crisis – a guide for local authorities on planning for climate change from the Town and Country Planning Association and the Royal Town Planning Institute
- https://www.cat.org.uk/info-resources/zero-carbon-britain/
- https://climateemergency.uk/
- https://www.rtpi.org.uk/briefing-room/news-releases/2019/july/planning-out-of-sync-with-net-zero-carbon-future,-rtpi-report-finds/
- Carbon Budgets (Latest IPCC Report) see chapter 2
- Carbonchoices promotes a book, Carbon Choices, by Neil Kitching, and a blog on climate change issues. The book “will help businesses and consumers to influence governments to set tight regulations; will encourage businesses to offer consumers better choices; and will empower individuals to make better choices for our climate and for wildlife”, according to the author.
Policy Advise for Councils
- https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/how-local-authorities-can-reduce-emissions-and-manage-climate-risks/
- The Councillors Workbook on Climate Change
- https://www.rtpi.org.uk/briefing-room/news-releases/2019/july/planning-out-of-sync-with-net-zero-carbon-future,-rtpi-report-finds/
- 2019 Report from the UK govnt. Committee on Climate Change
Carbon Reduction and Action Plans
- Kingsteignton Action Plan
- Cornwall Climate Change Action Plan
- https://www.bristol.gov.uk/planning-and-building-regulations/local-plan-review
- http://teignenergycommunities.co.uk/wedmore-energy-study-final-report-05-10-2019/