Stakeholder participation process
Co-creating Reading’s Climate Emergency Strategy 2025 – 2030
UPDATE (November 2024): Our public engagement activities for 2024 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!
What happens next?
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.
During December 2024 and early 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 strategy during Reading Climate Festival 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)
Previous messages (pre-November 2024)…
Get involved!
Work has begun on Reading’s Climate Emergency Strategy for 2025 – 2030. Have your say on what our town’s climate action priorities should be to reach net zero by 2030.
SHORT VERSION:
- Your inputs will feed into the work of the Designing a Net Zero Reading deliberative group. This group of 40 leaders, representing all policy areas and communities in Reading, is helping to shape climate action priorities for our town’s next Climate Emergency Strategy for 2025 – 2030.
- The second public survey in this process is now available HERE. Please respond by 10 November 2024.
LONG VERSION:
What are we engaging you in?
Reading’s current Climate Emergency Strategy & Action Plan* (which covers the period 2020 – 2025) is nearing its end. ReadingCAN has dedicated 2024 to bringing people together to shape climate action priorities for our next plan, for 2025 – 2030.
How will climate action priorities be decided?
The new climate action priorities will be decided via widespread participation and consultation. A ‘core deliberative group’ of 40 people (called the Designing a Net Zero Reading deliberative group) has been invited to meet three times this year, to share knowledge and perspectives and to consider inputs from YOU, the wider public and working groups.
During 2024 so far we have engaged residents and expert working groups via:
- Reading Climate Festival 2024
- A Designing a Net Zero Reading Discussion Pack
- A Big Letter from Schools
- A Youth Mobilisation Day
- Survey 1 (the first of two surveys)
- Two meetings of the Designing a Net Zero Reading Deliberative Group.
Your next opportunity to engage is:
CLIMATE STORIES & CASE STUDIES: Tell us a story about something your group, community or organisation has been doing to tackle climate change. Stories are a great way to inspire and encourage others to take action. “If they can do it, so can we!”
How to participate: See our storytelling guidelines and submission information on page 1o of the above-mentioned Discussion Pack.
SURVEY 2 (DEADLINE 10 NOVEMBER 2024): Comment on a second draft set of priorities that emerged during Workshop 2 of the Designing a Net Zero Reading deliberative group (which was held on Friday 20 September 2024). This is your chance to help refine emerging climate action priorities and point out omissions. Your inputs will be integrated into Workshop 3 of the deliberative group, which will be held on 26 November 2024.
How to participate: Survey 2 is now available HERE.
Stay in the loop…
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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.
