Brent Council has begun its climate emergency festival, a two-week-long programme aiming to raise awareness and inspire action on climate change in the local community.
The festival runs from 1 to 12 of November and includes a variety of in-person and online activities.
One of the events took place at Tesco in Harlesden, where Brent’s Climate Emergency team encouraged residents to make a climate pledge and sign up to the Brent environmental network.
Pledges made by residents included reducing dairy consumption, using public transport less, as well as switching heating at home to an electric boiler.
The board represents the community of Brent’s pledges to have a positive affect on climate change – Julita Waleskiewicz for City News
Tom Welsh, Climate Emergency Strategy Manager at Brent Council, said:
“Although the COP26 conference is important in a global scheme of things, we wanted to change what we do in terms of tackling climate change at a local level.”
Extinction Rebellion
The two-week-long programme of activities may not achieve the level of work needed to engage and empower towards creating a greener future for the borough.
Keith Gould from Extinction Rebellion said: “They must include any interested parties that wish to participate in the festival. The festival must consist of environmental groups in Brent too. Otherwise, they are doing their own kind of greenwashing.
“There must be parties with opposing views educating the public about the climate emergency and what we can do about it. The more collaboration that can happen on that front, the better.”
The climate emergency festival brings together people from across the borough and raises awareness of reducing carbon footprint.
Extinction Rebellion believes the two-week climate emergency festival is not enough to empower people towards action. Brent Council will continue working with residents to make Brent a carbon-neutral borough by 2030.
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StandfirstWhile COP26 is underway in Glasgow, Borough councils such as Brent are running climate festivals to educate their residents.
Brent Council has begun its climate emergency festival, a two-week-long programme aiming to raise awareness and inspire action on climate change in the local community.
The festival runs from 1 to 12 of November and includes a variety of in-person and online activities.
One of the events took place at Tesco in Harlesden, where Brent’s Climate Emergency team encouraged residents to make a climate pledge and sign up to the Brent environmental network.
Pledges made by residents included reducing dairy consumption, using public transport less, as well as switching heating at home to an electric boiler.
The board represents the community of Brent’s pledges to have a positive affect on climate change – Julita Waleskiewicz for City News
Tom Welsh, Climate Emergency Strategy Manager at Brent Council, said:
“Although the COP26 conference is important in a global scheme of things, we wanted to change what we do in terms of tackling climate change at a local level.”
Extinction Rebellion
The two-week-long programme of activities may not achieve the level of work needed to engage and empower towards creating a greener future for the borough.
Keith Gould from Extinction Rebellion said: “They must include any interested parties that wish to participate in the festival. The festival must consist of environmental groups in Brent too. Otherwise, they are doing their own kind of greenwashing.
“There must be parties with opposing views educating the public about the climate emergency and what we can do about it. The more collaboration that can happen on that front, the better.”
The climate emergency festival brings together people from across the borough and raises awareness of reducing carbon footprint.
Extinction Rebellion believes the two-week climate emergency festival is not enough to empower people towards action. Brent Council will continue working with residents to make Brent a carbon-neutral borough by 2030.
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