The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee, a cross-party group of MPs, has made a series of recommendations in a new report.
It states that the Government’s public engagement initiatives have been insufficient, a finding backed up by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) and the Public Accounts Committee.
The report also endorses the CCC’s call for the Government to publish a net zero Public Engagement Strategy, and to do so alongside the Net Zero Review. This should include detailed plans for education and engagement as well as greater opportunities for citizens' assemblies, citizens' juries and other methods, the body said.
Climate Assembly UK (CAUK), a body composed of Britons from different areas and demographics, was created last year to make climate recommendations to the Government. It found that many of the measures undertaken due to the Covid-19 lockdown would be a useful way to reduce carbon emissions in the future...