Citizens’ Assembly – Content Block Four
The fourth and final block focused on the assembly members agreeing and prioritising their recommendations.
Drawing on the wide range of information and discussions held in previous blocks, the Citizens’ Assembly made a series of recommendations for changes they want to see to the island transport systems and to reduce emissions from heating, cooling, and cooking.
Having considered a range of scenarios for carbon neutrality, and cost, benefits and trade-offs associated with these, the Citizens’ Assembly agreed to recommend a date by which they believe Jersey should become carbon neutral, and also talked about the level by which they wish to reduce emissions by this date, and beyond.
The Greffier of the States will receive the recommendations from the Assembly Members and will work with them to publish their report in early June.
Rob Hopkins
Steve Skelton
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Rob Hopkins
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Steve Skelton
Group Director, Strategy and Innovation
Government of Jersey
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Rob Hopkins
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Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and the author of The Transition Handbook, The Transition Companion, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, 21 Stories of Transition and most recently, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want. He presents the podcast series ‘From What If to What Next‘ which invites listeners to send in their “what if” questions and then explores how to make them a reality. In 2012, he was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the Observer’s list of Britain’s 50 New Radicals. Hopkins has also appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Four Thought and A Good Read, in the French film phenomenon Demain and its sequel Apres Demain, and has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events. An Ashoka Fellow, Hopkins also holds a doctorate degree from the University of Plymouth and has received two honorary doctorates from the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. In 2020 he was a member of the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Sustainable Behaviour Change. He is a keen gardener, a founder of New Lion Brewery in Totnes, and a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project. He blogs at transtionnetwork.org and robhopkins.net and tweets at @robintransition.
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Steve Skelton
Group Director, Strategy and Innovation
Government of Jersey
Steve leads Jersey's long-term strategic planning team. The team are working on ambitious plans to make Jersey carbon neutral; to create great sustainable communities over the next decade; develop fiscal strategy; anticipate the impact of technology on people, places and systems; and to build better transport, waste, hosing and energy systems.