Since late 2020, I regularly have my own work presented to me as someone else's, as the 'Onion Diagram' on pg 5 of @theCCCuk 's local authority guide is a minimally amended version of a bigger tool I developed while at the Centre for Sustainable Energy. A🧵 The original comes from work we did to support Local Authorities responding to the #ClimateEmergency. But the original tool also contains an approach to actionplanning that uses these 'levers of influence' in the onion diagram, linking the levers the changes that we need to make.

A great science-based thread below for anyone who wonders why giving people more information, or creating a slight barrier to their travel behaviour doesn't actually make them change anything.

To which I'll a little illustrative case study...

https://twitter.com/ianwalker/status/1536234868627148800

About 15 years ago, my husband and I moved to Bristol from the countryside. Not the 'burbs. Proper 'walkable-to-the-city-centre-in-about-20-minutes' Bristol.

This article about the #GreenhouseGas emissions of the super-rich touches on something I stress repeatedly in my work with local authorities.

The carbon footprints of the wealthiest households are much bigger than the poorest…
theguardian.com/environment/20… …and I’m not just talking about the mega-wealthy, I mean even just the moderately rich. But many councils are fearful of being seen to actively help the rich, so they conflate their #climateemergency work with work they are (often already) doing on tackling #FuelPoverty.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking, talking about & worrying about the #PlanningWhitePaper & proposed #PlanningReforms over the last 6 weeks. I’ve seen lots of criticism that I agree with about loss of democratic control, but less about potential impacts on the #ClimateEmergency. The White Paper presents an alarmingly reductionist view of the role of planning, focusing mainly on the delivery and appearance of houses as individual units, and the appeal of an attractive street-scene, rather than holistically #sustainable design and function of entire places

Recently, I was asked to give a seminar for @mhclg’s planners on the challenges faced by local authority planners delivering against the #climateemergency, because I work with lots of councils & I’m also Cabinet Member for Forward Planning at @CotswoldDC. So I know some stuff. First up, I did the ‘we’re all doomed’ bit. You know, the rollercoaster graphs steeply going up and the even steeper graphs of how emissions need to come down.