Stakeholder participation process

Co-creating Reading’s Climate Emergency Strategy 2025 – 2030

UPDATE (January 2025):  Our public engagement activities for developing the ongoing Climate Energency Strategy have come to an end. While the work to shape Reading’s next climate emergency strategy will continue, we have completed our formal public discussion groups and surveys. Thank you to everyone who took part in our Year of Climate Engagement. We have enjoyed bringing people together to co-create a list of climate action priorities for 2025 – 2030!

During 2024 we created opportunities for you to participate via:

  • Reading Climate Leaders’ Summit
  • Youth Mobilisation Day
  • Community Energy Summit
  • Designing a Net Zero Reading Discussion Pack
  • Reading Climate Festival 2024
  • Two public surveys
  • Expert working groups focused on key themes.

Your ideas fed into three meetings of the Designing a Net Zero Reading ‘core deliberative group’, made up of 45 leaders representing a wide range of Reading’s sectors and communities. This group is facilitated by Dialogue Matters, who specialise in participatory processes.

What happens next?

During 2025, Reading Climate Change Partnership will work to integrate your inputs into a new Reading Climate Emergency Strategy for 2025 – 2030. We aim to launch the new draft strategy for public consultation during Reading Climate Festival 2025, following which we will incorporate feedback before publishing the final version towards the end of 2025.

Outputs so far

Outputs of Public Survey 1 (Closing date 5 Sept 2024)

Outputs of Workshop 1 (28 June 2024)

Outputs of Workshop 2 (20 Sept 2024)

Outputs of Survey 2 (Closing date 10 Nov 2024)

Outputs of Workshop 3 (26 Nov 2024)

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Our partners

ReadingCAN’s partner in this engagement process is Dialogue Matters, an award-winning stakeholder participation and facilitation team.

* Explainer…

It’s easy to confuse Reading Borough Council’s corporate Carbon Reduction Plan and the ‘people’s’ Climate Emergency Strategy & Action Plan – so here is an explainer of the difference.

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