Camden’s energy future - Have your say. The UK government’s upcoming Energy Bill will impact how your energy is produced, how you heat your home and how the UK meets its’ international obligations on climate change.

Join us for a public discussion on issues around the energy bill including climate, energy and international development on a local, national and global scale. Guest speakers:

- Frank Dobson, MP for Holborn & St Pancras
- Angela Mason, Deputy Leader of Camden Council
- Kirsty Wright, Senior Climate Justice Campaigner, World Development Movement
- Mervyn Kohler, Fuel Poverty Advisory Group and Special Adviser to Age UK
- Louise Hutchins, Energy Campaigner Greenpeace

Put your questions to our speakers in the question and answer session. This is your opportunity to have your say!

Date: Thursday 31st March, 7pm
Location: Camden Town Hall, Judd St, WC1H 9JE

View and download the event poster - feel free to forward it to friends! You can also sign up to our facebook page for the event.

Event organised by Camden Friends of the Earth, Camden Greenpeace, North London World Development Movement and Camden Cyclists and supported by Stop Climate Chaos Coalition.

Update: Read a report from Transition groups on our deputation. Following the deputation Camden council have now signed up to support Friends of the Earth’s call for national legislation on Local Carbon Budgets.

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On Monday 28 February Camden Friends of the Earth, along with other green groups in Camden will be petitioning the council for more action on sustainability issues. We’ll be giving a deputation to the full council meeting at Camden Town Hall on Judd St, from 7pm. Please do come along if you’d like to (you’ll need to be there by 6.30pm).

Our deputation reads as follows:

We – CamdenCAN, Camden Cycling Campaign, Camden Friends of the Earth, Gaia Foundation, Jewish Community Centre, Transition Belsize, Transition Bloomsbury and Transition Primrose Hill:

• Are delighted that Camden has signed up to the Friends of the Earth “Get Serious” campaign to reduced the borough’s emissions by 40% by 2020, but believe that the government’s figures for decarbonisation of the grid, and Camden Council’s adoption of them, are unrealistic, so we would therefore urge the council to publish a Plan B scenario which does not use such optimistic figures for decarbonisation of the grid;
• Urge Camden Council to take part in the Green Deal if allowed as we believe that local authorities are far better placed to be able to provide loans for energy efficiency measures to householders in their local areas than private companies;
• Would like to see Camden Council back the creation of a Peak Oil Report for Camden as Bristol and many North American cities have done;
• Support the Green Action for Change but we think it is not relevant enough to the general public, and specifically we urge the council to replace the Carbon and Air Quality sections by one on Pollution, change the Waste section for a Reuse and Recycling section, add an Energy Saving section, and to make Food a main pillar of the strategy as we believe that food, in all its manifestations, is the easiest way to get residents thinking about sustainability;
• Urge Camden Council to adopt a blanket 20 mph limit through the borough on non-TFL roads to encourage more people to give up their cars in favour of walking and cycling; and
• Ask Camden Council to support national legislation on local carbon budgets being promoted by Friends of the Earth.

We recently responded to two consultations run by Camden Council: the Environmental Sustainability Plan and the Draft Transport Strategy.  

See below for our responses:

• Camden Friends of the Earth response to Camden Environmental Sustainability Plan 2011-2020 (pdf)
• Camden Friends of the Earth response to Camden Draft Transport Strategy 2011-2031 (pdf)