CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH
CLIMATE ACTION COALITION

We meet monthly online to discuss our participation in the Combined Authority's Climate Working Group, to organise our activities and to support the campaigning of our member organisations.
Membership is not required to join our online monthly meetings.

Our Purpose

We see our role as supportive, but also strongly holding the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority to account on the recommendations of its Full Climate Report. Furthermore, our purpose is to monitor the activities of the Combined Authority to ensure that its actions, either planned or actual, are consistent with the Climate and Ecological Emergency.

We meet monthly online to discuss our participation in the Combined Authority's Climate Working Group, to organise our activities and to support the campaigning of our member organisations. Membership is not required to join our online monthly meetings.

Participation

We encourage participation from non-members and act upon recommendations from organisations and individuals outside of our formal membership.

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For more information about us, read our:
Briefing Note
and
Terms of Reference

Dates and Times of CPCAC Meetings:
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Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority Meetings (Livestreams)

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Forthcomming (and other) Elections

We're facing a climate and ecological emergency, the biggest threat we've ever seen to humanity's existence.

Tackling the climate and nature and crises must be done in a way which benefits everyone, no matter their income, race, age, or background. It's essential to address the sheer scale of inequalities that exist.
People who are most marginalised, both here in the UK and across the world, have done the least to cause climate breakdown and are the least able to rebound from its impacts.
People on lower incomes, and particularly black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, suffer most from the lack of nature and green space in our towns and cities. This is also true of air pollution, despite a smaller proportion of lower-income and BAME people owning cars than others.
Young people's futures are most at risk from climate breakdown and the decline of nature.
Rather than focusing on economic growth, whoever is elected at either the forthcoming Local and National elections should identify whether their manifesto and subsequent acions reduce poverty, decrease inequalities, increase wellbeing and meet carbon reduction and environmental restoration goals.

CPCAC is demanding more of our politicians, both Local and National and asking for the following from them:

1. Work Cross-Party
   Resolve to work with all other political parties constructively and urgently to develop and deliver on policies that respond effectively to the climate emergency, including backing the Climate and Ecology Bill or the Climate and Nature Bill which is not yet published on the Parliament website but available as a draft HERE:
2. Employ Citizens' Assemblies
   Set up and empower Citizens' Assemblies to resolve the most politically difficult decisions around decarbonising transport and buildings.
3. Set Annual Carbon Budgets
   Each local authority to adopt a 1.5°C compatible carbon budget and set out a carbon reduction plan that covers all residents' consumption. Annual accounts to be published and scrutinised with the same rigour as financial accounts.
4. Carbon Neutral Projects and Policies
   Every project and policy considered at all layers of government to have a detailed and verifiable carbon reduction statement upon which a go/no-go decision is based.
5. Incentivise Leaders and Decision Makers
   All senior civil servants and local government officers shall have carbon reduction targets baked into their job descriptions and annual performance reviews.