Agenda item

Note:

Under the Council’s constitution, 30 minutes are available for the consideration of motions. In practice, this realistically means that there is usually only time for one, or possibly two motions to be considered. With the agreement of the Lord Mayor, motion 1 below will be considered at this meeting, and motion 2 is likely to be considered, subject to time. Details of other motions submitted, (which, due to time constraints, are very unlikely to be considered at this meeting) are also set out for information.

 

1.      Green New Deal

 

Full Council notes:

1. The Paris Agreement, which recognises that we must keep global temperature rises below 1.5°C to prevent the worst effects of climate change; said accord’s commitment by national governments to reduce carbon emissions, though by less than the ambitious targets set and brought forward by Bristol’s Labour council – most recently to 2025.

 

2. The draft Local Plan’s commitment to carbon neutral homes and development, together with successive investments by Labour budgets in renewable energy; lower-emissions vehicles for the authority, waste company, and Lord Mayor; progress towards a new recycling and reuse centre at Hartcliffe Way; low-carbon heat networks to tackle fuel poverty; insulating 20,000 council properties; and delivering renewable energy projects.

 

3. The Climate Emergency, which Bristol institutions have been the first in the country to declare and which Mayor Marvin Rees led 435 UK councils to declare via the Local Government Association; the climate protests sweeping this country including the youth strikes for climate and Extinction Rebellion and the increasingly widespread calls for a transformative Green New Deal to tackle the challenges that face us.

 

4. The radical carbon neutrality action plan, the Mayor’s speech on Clean Air Day, Bus Deal negotiations, the £1 billion City Leap energy transformation programme, progressing plans for an underground/overground mass transit system, introduction of carbon budgeting, and establishment of the One City Environment Board, advised by the expert Advisory Group on Climate Change; and the data set out within July’s action plan, which shows that the city’s consumption and imports make up ten times the emissions of aviation and shipping, and twice as much as electricity, gas, and transport.

 

5. The shadow Chancellor’s plans to bring forward the Government’s net-zero emissions target from 2050, invest £250 billion in a National Transformation Fund, ensure 60% of energy is from low or zero carbon sources by 2030, and raise research and development spending to 3% by of Gross Domestic Product by 2030.

 

Full Council believes:

1. As set out repeatedly by the Labour administration, social and environmental justice must go hand-in-hand – especially given the poorest suffer first and most from climate change and that the richest have carbon footprints four times larger than those of the poorest; and that cities have an increasingly crucial role in delivering on both fronts, as set out in the Global Parliament of Mayors’ Bristol Declaration of 2018.

2. In the work being done by this council with partners to locally implement the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which recognise the interdependence of the Climate Emergency with simultaneous crises including poverty, housing, and health.

 

3. Deregulation and cuts to support for renewable energy by the Government have discouraged corporations away from reducing their dependence on dwindling and damaging fossil fuels.

 

4. A state-led green industrial revolution of investment, regulation, and partnerships would decarbonise and transform our economy, and limit global average temperature rises below 1.5°C

 

5. Bristol’s world-famous aerospace sector, the birthplace of Concorde, should be at the forefront of decarbonising the aviation industry – increasing fuel efficiency advances and further accelerating the development of hybrid/electric planes.

 

Full Council resolves:

1. To restate the urgency of the Climate Emergency, and welcome declarations from the LGA and the West of England Combined Authority.

 

2. To back the One City Plan, aligned with the UN’s SDGs, and to work towards delivering the Green New Deal locally where possible, as below.

 

3. To request that Party Group Leaders write to their respective national party leaders for their support with national legislation, regulation, and investment to enable the accelerated delivery of the Friends of the Earth asks and projects set out in ‘Notes 4’ together with the following local and national pledges which we would like to work towards and deliver:

 

·         a commitment to zero carbon emissions by 2030;

·         the rapid phase-out of all fossil fuels and a low-carbon transport integrated network for Bristol and the region;

·         large scale investment in renewables;

·         a just transition to well-paid, unionised, green jobs available for all, with skills (re-)training and support for the jobs of the present and future, together with workers’ cooperatives and mutuals;

·         a green industrial revolution expanding active workers’ engagement, representation and consultation and public, democratic ownership as far as necessary for the transformation, green public integrated transport that connects Britain;

·         support developing countries’ climate transitions by increasing transfers of finance, technology, and capacity;

·         assuring empowered communities and everyone’s basic rights through the provision of universal services;

·         and welcoming climate refugees while taking measures against the displacement of peoples from their home cities and countries and how that further compounds political and social instability.

 

Motion to be moved by: Cllr Kye Dudd

Date of submission: 29^th August 2019

 

2. Support For Freeports

“This Council is intrigued by the possibilities presented by the Prime Minister’s Freeports initiative as a means of maximising new global trading opportunities.

Globally, there are around 3000 of these free trade zones, which can be established at both sea and air points of entry, including a more limited version of these within the European Union. These are areas within a geographic boundary of a country but, legally, are treated as external to that state for the purposes of applying different (lower) customs duties and business rates.

Historically, these ports have proved to be catalysts for economic redevelopment and regeneration. 

Council also notes that some concerns have been raised over potential risks associated with the operation of these facilities, namely as a vehicle for money laundering, counterfeiting and/or tax evasion.  However, it should equally be recognised that these threats or dangers can be prevented, mitigated and minimised through the operation of greater transparency, regulation and oversight.

The Bristol Port Company has already expressed interest in exploring a bid to be included in the first ten tranche to be decided by the Freeports Advisory Panel.  It is this Council’s view that the future prosperity of our City Region could be greatly enhanced by this change of status. 

Accordingly, Council calls on the Mayor to lend his support for any formal application made by the Port Company, and work with the West of England Combined Authority to ensure that we are best placed to take advantage of or benefit from this prestigious, national programme.”

Motion to be moved by: Cllr Mark Weston

Date of submission: 29^th August 2019

 

 

3. Improve decision-making and increase public engagement by developing forms of Deliberative Democracy

 

This Council notes:

 

§  That the Administration has a genuine desire to engage with citizens, as demonstrated by continued support of the Citizens’ Panel and efforts made to promote engagement in consultations on important decisions for the City;

§  That present actions do not go far enough to truly engage all Bristolians. We are not reaching, or actively engaging, the majority of citizens in deprived parts of the City and we respond to the loud voices of the few who fill in consultations or who use Full Council to express their views;

§  That the forms of engagement used presently take citizens’ views but do not allow for input into decision making which does not encourage engagement. Often, people are not given enough information to be fully informed, which undermines the consultation process;

§  That the value of consultations has been undermined by past failures like the Library Consultation in 2017, where citizens were presented with three very limited options and they could not support any one of them;

§  That the majority of the citizenry are not engaged in decision making and feel disenfranchised;

§  That Deliberative Democracy is an umbrella term, of which Citizens’ Assembly is the best known. Citizens’ Assemblies have been used effectively in many countries to solve complex political or social issues and are truly representative, as selection is stratified (like jury service) and people who attend are paid a stipend which validates the action. Citizens’ Jury is a scaled down version of an assembly. Another form of deliberative democracy, used quite extensively in the UK between 2002-2010, is Participatory Budgeting which was shown to improve accountability and allow for the redistribution of funds. Deliberative Polling is an effective way to develop an informed citizenry, as this process takes a stratified group, captures their understanding of a topic, then fully informs them of the issues and once again surveys their opinions. The benefit is that the administration gets the views of citizens who have an holistic understanding of complex problems;

§  That although there is a cost in running deliberative actions, the value of high-quality decisions, based on informed, reasoned debate makes it good value for money and delivers a stronger mandate to the Administration.

 

This Council believes:

§  We trust our citizens to make decisions;

§  Deliberative democracy complements consultation and makes it more meaningful. The difference is that a stratified selection is made and this is truly representative of the people;

§  Deliberative processes are not intended for everyday politics and are best used for complex issues which are divisive or where there might be political gridlock;

§  Having been the first council in the country to sign up to be carbon neutral in 2030, we should now be the first council to embrace deliberative democracy;

§  That types of deliberative democracy should be piloted in Bristol, with at least two projects within the next year. Examples could be: devolving some funds to the Area Committees through a Participatory Budget or a Citizens’ Assembly on elements of the paper on Getting to Carbon Neutrality by 2030.

 

This Council proposes:

 

§  That a cross-party group is set up to establish the terms of reference for Bristol’s adoption of  Deliberative Democracy, which would come back to this Council for ratification within three months.

§  That once the terms of reference are agreed, a sum of money (to be decided) will be set aside to fund the actions;

§  That, once the terms are ratified, there will be a trial of at least two projects within the financial year 2020-2021 and I suggest the following:

 

Ø  Citizens’ Assembly on how Bristol should respond to the Climate Emergency

Ø  A participatory budget, using the Area Committees as a delivery method

 

 

Motion to be moved by: Cllr Paula O’Rourke

Date of Submission: 29^th August 2019

 

4. Public Health Funding

 

This Council notes that:

·         The public health grant funds vital services and functions that prevent ill health and contribute to the future sustainability of the NHS. Local authorities are responsible for delivering most of these services, but their ability to do so is compromised by public health grant reductions and the broader funding climate.

·         In 2018/19 and 2019/20 every local authority will have less to spend on public health than the year before.[i] Taking funds away from prevention is a false economy.Without proper investment in public health people suffer, demand on local health services increases and the economy suffers. Poor public health costs local businesses heavily through sick days and lost productivity[ii]. Unless we restore public health funding, our health and care system will remain locked in a ‘treatment’ approach, which is neither economically viable nor protects the health of residents.

 

·         The Government is looking to phase out the Public Health Grant by 2020/21. Thereafter, they plan to fund public health via 75% business rates retention[iii]. Whatever the model, it is vital that local authorities have enough funding to deliver the functions and services they need to provide. Deprived areas often suffer the worst health outcomes, so it is also vital that areas with the greatest need receive sufficient funding to meet their local challenges[iv].

 

·         Around four in ten cancers are preventable, largely through avoidable risk factors, such as stopping smoking, keeping a healthy weight and cutting back on alcohol[v]. Smoking accounts for 80,000[vi] early deaths every year and remains the largest preventable cause of cancer in the world[vii]. Smoking-related ill health costs local authorities £760 million every year in social care costs[viii]. Additionally, obesity and alcohol account for 30,000[ix] and 7,000[x] early deaths each year respectively. All three increase the risk of: cancer, diabetes, lung and heart conditions, poor mental health and create a subsequent burden on health and social care.

 

This Council believes that:

·         Taking funds away from prevention is a false economy.Without proper investment in public health people suffer, demand on local health services increases and the economy suffers. Poor public health costs local businesses heavily through sick days and lost productivity[xi]. Unless we restore public health funding, our health and care system will remain locked in a ‘treatment’ approach, which is neither economically viable nor protects the health of residents.

·         The impact of cuts to public health on our communities is becoming difficult to ignore. This case becomes more pressing given the Government’s consideration of a 10-year plan for the NHS. For this reason, we support Cancer Research UK’s call for increased and sustainable public health funding. This Council calls on the Government to deliver increased investment in public health and to support a sustainable health and social care system by taking a ‘prevention first’ approach. In turn, Bristol City Council will continue to support and fund public health initiatives to the best of our abilities - to prevent ill-health, reduce inequalities and support a health and social care system that is fit for the future.

 

Motion 1 – Green New Deal

 

Councillor Dudd moved the following motion:

 

Full Council notes:

1. The Paris Agreement, which recognises that we must keep global temperature rises below 1.5°C to prevent the worst effects of climate change; said accord’s commitment by national governments to reduce carbon emissions, though by less than the ambitious targets set and brought forward by Bristol’s Labour council – most recently to 2025.

 

2. The draft Local Plan’s commitment to carbon neutral homes and development, together with successive investments by Labour budgets in renewable energy; lower-emissions vehicles for the authority, waste company, and Lord Mayor; progress towards a new recycling and reuse centre at Hartcliffe Way; low-carbon heat networks to tackle fuel poverty; insulating 20,000 council properties; and delivering renewable energy projects.

 

3. The Climate Emergency, which Bristol institutions have been the first in the country to declare and which Mayor Marvin Rees led 435 UK councils to declare via the Local Government Association; the climate protests sweeping this country including the youth strikes for climate and Extinction Rebellion and the increasingly widespread calls for a transformative Green New Deal to tackle the challenges that face us.

 

4. The radical carbon neutrality action plan, the Mayor’s speech on Clean Air Day, Bus Deal negotiations, the £1 billion City Leap energy transformation programme, progressing plans for an underground/overground mass transit system, introduction of carbon budgeting, and establishment of the One City Environment Board, advised by the expert Advisory Group on Climate Change; and the data set out within July’s action plan, which shows that the city’s consumption and imports make up ten times the emissions of aviation and shipping, and twice as much as electricity, gas, and transport.

 

5. The shadow Chancellor’s plans to bring forward the Government’s net-zero emissions target from 2050, invest £250 billion in a National Transformation Fund, ensure 60% of energy is from low or zero carbon sources by 2030, and raise research and development spending to 3% by of Gross Domestic Product by 2030.

 

Full Council believes:

1. As set out repeatedly by the Labour administration, social and environmental justice must go hand-in-hand – especially given the poorest suffer first and most from climate change and that the richest have carbon footprints four times larger than those of the poorest; and that cities have an increasingly crucial role in delivering on both fronts, as set out in the Global Parliament of Mayors’ Bristol Declaration of 2018.

 

2. In the work being done by this council with partners to locally implement the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which recognise the interdependence of the Climate Emergency with simultaneous crises including poverty, housing, and health.

3. Deregulation and cuts to support for renewable energy by the Government have discouraged corporations away from reducing their dependence on dwindling and damaging fossil fuels.

 

4. A state-led green industrial revolution of investment, regulation, and partnerships would decarbonise and transform our economy, and limit global average temperature rises below 1.5°C

 

5. Bristol’s world-famous aerospace sector, the birthplace of Concorde, should be at the forefront of decarbonising the aviation industry – increasing fuel efficiency advances and further accelerating the development of hybrid/electric planes.

 

Full Council resolves:

1. To restate the urgency of the Climate Emergency, and welcome declarations from the LGA and the West of England Combined Authority.

 

2. To back the One City Plan, aligned with the UN’s SDGs, and to work towards delivering the Green New Deal locally where possible, as below.

 

3. To request that Party Group Leaders write to their respective national party leaders for their support with national legislation, regulation, and investment to enable the accelerated delivery of the Friends of the Earth asks and projects set out in ‘Notes 4’ together with the following local and national pledges which we would like to work towards and deliver:

·         a commitment to zero carbon emissions by 2030;

·         the rapid phase-out of all fossil fuels and a low-carbon transport integrated network for Bristol and the region;

·         large scale investment in renewables;

·         a just transition to well-paid, unionised, green jobs available for all, with skills (re-)training and support for the jobs of the present and future, together with workers’ cooperatives and mutuals;

·         a green industrial revolution expanding active workers’ engagement, representation and consultation and public, democratic ownership as far as necessary for the transformation, green public integrated transport that connects Britain;

·         support developing countries’ climate transitions by increasing transfers of finance, technology, and capacity;

·         assuring empowered communities and everyone’s basic rights through the provision of universal services;

·         and welcoming climate refugees while taking measures against the displacement of peoples from their home cities and countries and how that further compounds political and social instability.

 

Councillor Whittle seconded the motion.

 

Councillor Denyer moved the following amendment:

 

Full Council notes:

1. The Paris Agreement, which recognises that we must keep global temperature rises below 1.5°C to prevent the worst effects of climate change; said accord’s commitment by national governments to reduce carbon emissions, and Bristol City Council’s commitments to a carbon neutral council by 2025 and carbon neutral city by 2030.

2. The Council’s draft Local Plan’s commitment to carbon neutral homes and development, together with successive investments in renewable energy; lower-emissions vehicles; progress towards a new recycling and reuse centre at Hartcliffe Way; low-carbon heat networks to tackle fuel poverty; insulating 20,000 council properties; and the £1 billion City Leap energy transformation programme.

3. The Climate Emergency, which Bristol institutions have been the first in the country to declare; the climate protests sweeping this country including the youth strikes for climate and Extinction Rebellion.

4. The Mayor’s response to the Climate Emergency, published in July 2019, which outlines initial proposals for further carbon reduction including the introduction of carbon budgeting, and establishment of the One City Environment Board, advised by the expert Advisory Group on Climate Change.

5. The shadow Chancellor’s plans to bring forward the Government’s net-zero emissions target from 2050, invest £250 billion in a National Transformation Fund, ensure 60% of energy is from low or zero carbon sources by 2030, and raise research and development spending to 3% by of Gross Domestic Product by 2030.

6. The concept of a ‘Green New Deal’, created in the UK by a multi-disciplinary group of experts in 2008 [1] and inspired by Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s, which aims to decarbonise the economy and eradicate inequality through public investment, and the Decarbonisation and Economic Strategy Bill proposed in Parliament by Caroline Lucas MP and Clive Lewis MP to enact it.

 

Full Council believes:

1. Social and environmental justice must go hand-in-hand – especially given the poorest suffer first and most from climate change and that the richest have carbon footprints four times larger than those of the poorest; and that cities have an increasingly crucial role in delivering on both fronts, as set out in the Global Parliament of Mayors’ Bristol Declaration of 2018.

2. In the work being done by this council with partners to locally implement the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which recognise the interdependence of the Climate Emergency with simultaneous crises including poverty, housing, and health.

3. Deregulation and cuts to support for renewable energy by the Government have discouraged corporations away from reducing their dependence on dwindling and damaging fossil fuels.

4. A state-led green industrial revolution of investment, regulation, and partnerships would decarbonise and transform our economy, and limit global average temperature rises below 1.5°C.

5. Bristol’s world-famous aerospace sector, the birthplace of Concorde, should be at the forefront of decarbonising the aviation industry – increasing fuel efficiency advances and further accelerating the development of hybrid/electric planes. However, as such technological developments are still many years away and the percentage of the UK’s emissions from aircraft is predicted to rise steeply [2], in the meantime there should be a moratorium on any further expansion of passenger capacity at airports (including at Bristol Airport).

6. That while proper funding and legislation to tackle the Climate Emergency are urgently needed from Central Government, there are still a lot of things that local government can do to start tackling climate change right now, such as the ’33 actions’ suggested by Friends of the Earth. [3]

 

Full Council resolves:

1. To restate the urgency of the Climate Emergency, and welcome declarations from the LGA and the West of England Combined Authority (WECA).

2. To back the One City Plan, aligned with the UN’s SDGs, and to work towards delivering the Green New Deal locally where possible, as below.

3. To call on the Council administration to begin a Green New Deal for Bristol by committing to actions, as proposed by the Green New Deal group [1] and Friends of the Earth [3], that are currently within its powers, including:

–        Ensure that every decision made by the Council is commensurate with the Climate Emergency and UN SDGs  by contributing to reductions in both greenhouse gas emissions and inequality;

–        Use its influence on the multi-billion pound Avon Pension Fund to fully divest out of fossil fuels and into socially and environmentally beneficial investments such as renewable energy generation and low-carbon housebuilding, over the next five years;

–        Begin work on a Congestion Charge or Workplace Parking Levy to raise funds and support cleaner, cheaper public transport;

–        Oppose plans for new road capacity which inevitably leads to more traffic and carbon emissions;

–        Build dozens of miles of cycling freeways and quietways across Bristol – by funding the cycling and pedestrian strategies  that will improve quality of life and make it easier for people to get out of their cars;

–        Stronger Local Plan policies and Council property management policies to ensure all new residential and commercial developments on private and Council land are ‘climate emergency-proof’;

–        Work with WECA and North Somerset Council to prioritise the skills training and improve local supply chains to accelerate and enable the retrofitting for existing homes and buildings to become carbon neutral.

 

4. To request that Party Group Leaders write to their respective national party leaders for their support with national legislation, regulation, devolution and investment to enable the Council to carry out the other Green New Deal group [1] and Friends of the Earth [3] proposals, including:

 

–        a commitment to zero carbon emissions by 2030;

–        the rapid phase-out of all fossil fuels and fossil fuel infrastructure;

–        a low-carbon transport integrated network for the whole of the UK;

–        steps to tackle tax evasion and avoidance (which the Green New Deal group proposes would provide part of the funding for such a deal);

–        a real reduction in emissions from our local airport;

–        insulating every home and commercial building; 

–        large scale investment in renewables;

–        more sustainable and local food production;

–        a strengthening of the commons - natural and digital - to steward nature sustainably and ensure data and digital technologies are organised as a common resource to meet our needs;

–        a just transition to well-paid, unionised, green jobs available for all, with skills (re-)training and support for the jobs of the present and future, together with workers’ cooperatives and mutuals;

–        restructuring the economy and world of work through a green industrial strategy for more meaningful jobs and an expansion of leisure time, expanding active workers’ engagement, representation and consultation and public, democratic ownership;

–        a reshaping and democratisation of the financial system to drive a step-change in investment and ensure its power serves the interests of people and planet;

–        support developing countries’ climate transitions by increasing transfers of finance, technology, and capacity;

–        assuring empowered communities and everyone’s basic rights through the provision of universal services;

–        and welcoming climate refugees while taking measures against the displacement of peoples from their home cities and countries and how that further compounds political and social instability.

References:

1.       https://greennewdealgroup.org

2.       https://www.ft.com/content/285d31c6-1fbe-11e9-b126-46fc3ad87c65

3.       https://policy.friendsoftheearth.uk/insight/33-actions-local-authorities-can-take-climate-change

Councillor Pearce raised a point of order CPR15.1 and 15.2.  The Director of Legal and Democratic Services provided advice to the Lord Mayor and Full Council.

 

The amendment was seconded by Councillor Combley.

 

Following debate after being put to the vote, the amendment was LOST.

 

Upon moving to the vote on the original motion, it was CARRIED.

 

Full Council notes:

1. The Paris Agreement, which recognises that we must keep global temperature rises below 1.5°C to prevent the worst effects of climate change; said accord’s commitment by national governments to reduce carbon emissions, though by less than the ambitious targets set and brought forward by Bristol’s Labour council – most recently to 2025.

 

2. The draft Local Plan’s commitment to carbon neutral homes and development, together with successive investments by Labour budgets in renewable energy; lower-emissions vehicles for the authority, waste company, and Lord Mayor; progress towards a new recycling and reuse centre at Hartcliffe Way; low-carbon heat networks to tackle fuel poverty; insulating 20,000 council properties; and delivering renewable energy projects.

 

3. The Climate Emergency, which Bristol institutions have been the first in the country to declare and which Mayor Marvin Rees led 435 UK councils to declare via the Local Government Association; the climate protests sweeping this country including the youth strikes for climate and Extinction Rebellion and the increasingly widespread calls for a transformative Green New Deal to tackle the challenges that face us.

 

4. The radical carbon neutrality action plan, the Mayor’s speech on Clean Air Day, Bus Deal negotiations, the £1 billion City Leap energy transformation programme, progressing plans for an underground/overground mass transit system, introduction of carbon budgeting, and establishment of the One City Environment Board, advised by the expert Advisory Group on Climate Change; and the data set out within July’s action plan, which shows that the city’s consumption and imports make up ten times the emissions of aviation and shipping, and twice as much as electricity, gas, and transport.

 

5. The shadow Chancellor’s plans to bring forward the Government’s net-zero emissions target from 2050, invest £250 billion in a National Transformation Fund, ensure 60% of energy is from low or zero carbon sources by 2030, and raise research and development spending to 3% by of Gross Domestic Product by 2030.

 

Full Council believes:

1. As set out repeatedly by the Labour administration, social and environmental justice must go hand-in-hand – especially given the poorest suffer first and most from climate change and that the richest have carbon footprints four times larger than those of the poorest; and that cities have an increasingly crucial role in delivering on both fronts, as set out in the Global Parliament of Mayors’ Bristol Declaration of 2018.

 

2. In the work being done by this council with partners to locally implement the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which recognise the interdependence of the Climate Emergency with simultaneous crises including poverty, housing, and health.

3. Deregulation and cuts to support for renewable energy by the Government have discouraged corporations away from reducing their dependence on dwindling and damaging fossil fuels.

 

4. A state-led green industrial revolution of investment, regulation, and partnerships would decarbonise and transform our economy, and limit global average temperature rises below 1.5°C

 

5. Bristol’s world-famous aerospace sector, the birthplace of Concorde, should be at the forefront of decarbonising the aviation industry – increasing fuel efficiency advances and further accelerating the development of hybrid/electric planes.

 

Full Council resolves:

1. To restate the urgency of the Climate Emergency, and welcome declarations from the LGA and the West of England Combined Authority.

 

2. To back the One City Plan, aligned with the UN’s SDGs, and to work towards delivering the Green New Deal locally where possible, as below.

 

3. To request that Party Group Leaders write to their respective national party leaders for their support with national legislation, regulation, and investment to enable the accelerated delivery of the Friends of the Earth asks and projects set out in ‘Notes 4’ together with the following local and national pledges which we would like to work towards and deliver:

·         a commitment to zero carbon emissions by 2030;

·         the rapid phase-out of all fossil fuels and a low-carbon transport integrated network for Bristol and the region;

·         large scale investment in renewables;

·         a just transition to well-paid, unionised, green jobs available for all, with skills (re-)training and support for the jobs of the present and future, together with workers’ cooperatives and mutuals;

·         a green industrial revolution expanding active workers’ engagement, representation and consultation and public, democratic ownership as far as necessary for the transformation, green public integrated transport that connects Britain;

·         support developing countries’ climate transitions by increasing transfers of finance, technology, and capacity;

·         assuring empowered communities and everyone’s basic rights through the provision of universal services;

·         and welcoming climate refugees while taking measures against the displacement of peoples from their home cities and countries and how that further compounds political and social instability.