Welcome to our new Reading Climate Action Network website. Our Vision is to build a thriving network of businesses and organisations who will be at the forefront of developing solutions for reducing carbon emissions and preparing for climate change.
Our current strategy Reading Means Business on Climate Change is now live on this website. Please look through the Action Theme pages to find out what we are doing...and how you can help.
Come and join us at the Reading Town Meal. We are going to use this as an opportunity to launch our new website and the revised Reading climate change strategy.
No expressway through Otmoor 13 September 2018
Taking part in consultations can get results The Government has announced the preferred corridor for the Oxford-Cambridge Expressway, and has ruled out construction in the area of the Otmoor nature reserve. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/oxford-to-cambridge-expressway-road-scheme-update
28 Sept – Reading Town Meal 21 August 2018
Come and join us at the Reading Town Meal on Saturday 29th September. We are going to use this as an opportunity to launch our new website and the revised Reading Climate Change strategy. Please do come and find us on one of the stalls. You can find out more about our aims for the …
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Tawny Owl Surveying: help needed 12 August 2018
The British Trust for Ornithology is commencing two tawny owl surveys this summer to assess distribution. The first, the tawny owl point survey, starts in August and asks people to adopt one of many 2 km squares selected across the country, stand in the centre on two nice evenings roughly one month apart, and estimate …
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Government Consultation on Household waste duty of care: updating the guidance 10 August 2018
The Duty of Care is the requirement for the producers of waste to take adequate care about disposal, such as not choosing a cheap contractor who will dump it in the countryside, or describing the waste wrongly. This consultation is seeking views on the updated guidance for householders and new guidance for local authorities on meeting …
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Government Consultation on Feed–in-tariffs scheme
This consultation is seeking views on the closure of the scheme for small-scale low-carbon installations to new applicants from March 2019 Consultation Closes 30 September 2018 https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/feed-in-tariffs-scheme