Elected Mayor's Green Paper: Meeting the challenge of climate change

Are you prepared for the challenge of climate change? How can we can work together to make Stoke-on-Trent greener?

It’s a fact: climate change is the single issue that concerns most people in this country today.  But it’s going to affect different people – and different places – in different ways.  So we need to find solutions that are lasting and that are the right ones for us. 

That’s why I’ve just published this Climate Change Green Paper.  It sets out what the council has already done to tackle climate change in the city and what it’s proposing to do in the future.  But I’m also asking everyone with an interest in making Stoke-on-Trent a cleaner, greener place to tell me what else we should be doing and who we should be working with to meet the challenge of climate change.

You can download full and summary versions of the Green Paper below. To view the files you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. Follow this link to download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader.  Hard copies are being distributed with Our City magazine to every address in Stoke-on-Trent and will also be widely available in neighbourhood centres, libraries, museums and other public buildings.

Over the summer, I’d like everyone to read what I’ve got to say in my Green Paper and tell me what they think.  The document suggests several ways to make your views known – in writing, by e-mail, texting, or in person.  In September, I’ll be running a series of school-based events around the Green Paper, in which young people will be encouraged to allow their imagination run freely.  Shortly afterwards, I’ll be reporting back on what the city’s people told me about climate change.  I’ll also let you know how the council and its partners will be working to build these ideas into policies, programmes and projects that will allow us to meet the challenge together.