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Hello. I’m Lucy Neal. I was awarded the Council’s S. West London Green Champion Award in 2009. This is Hilary Jennings: we co-chaired Transition Town Tooting in early days in 2008. We’ve been at this a while.
I’m sure everyone in this room tonight knows that delivering a stable future climate for everyone on Earth depends on this meeting. Everything we are currently doing feeds into the run up to COP26 in Glasgow. The Paris agree-ments start in 2021. All the lights on Earth’s dashboard are flashing red.
So, a cross party declaration of a Climate and Ecological Emergency and an Action Plan to follow through. I think that’s worth a hurrah! Hurrah!!! (clapping...good to test spirit of room)
We welcome mention in plan of engagement with local community groups and partners because of their expertise and contacts.
1. TTT: We are here to represent Citizen expertise. For 12 years, we’ve been rehearsing how to join up sectors and work across disciplines towards: healthier, more resilient local communities, cleaner air, locally generated zero carbon energy, affordable transport, efficient housing, new jobs, localised supply chains, healthier food and space for biodiversity. TTT has built in this time, a ‘can do’ practice and approach amongst residents working together - to create a biodiverse, creative, skilled, zero carbon and connected town. We champion and celebrate people’s energy, care and en-thusiasm for their neighbourhoods in the community of Wandsworth. There’s a great deal of professional expertise. We’ve been shifting aware-ness of the climate emergency and also building practical alternatives for what’s needed and possible.
