2020 Vision Exeter
Reducing Exeter’s carbon footprint by about 80% by 2020
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1: Target 2: Vision 3: Descent 4: CRAGs 5: Ethic 6: Process
3: Carbon Descent Action Plan:The concept of Energy Descent Action Plans is well explored as a central component of the Transition Movement. But it appears to us that for the next 10 years, the priority should be focused purely on CO2 emissions, because it reflects the main emergency criterion. This is why we propose a Carbon Descent Action Plan. But in all essence it should be developed in a similar way. It is also essential that we move quickly towards measuring and understanding the currency of carbon.A crucial aspect of the Carbon Descent Action Plan is that it is developed and maintained by the community as a whole. It must happen as a “bottom up” plan, that is supported by “top down” policy-making from Local Authorities (and Government itself). The reason for this “bottom up” approach is two-fold: (a) it harnesses the expertise and creativity of Exeter’s citizens as a whole, and (b) it is easier to implement a plan that has widespread acceptance and understanding. For an example of a Carbon Descent Action Plan in progress, please refer to Transition Town Totnes’s EDAP which is on the following weblink: http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/EDAPwebversion Useful reading with over 350 pages of inspirational writing. The detailed components of a Carbon Descent Action Plan might be as follows:
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Latest Update ... April 2010 |
Any updates, modifications, please contact Maurice
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