York joins Europe-wide move on climate change

8:20am Tuesday 25th September 2012 in News

YORK is joining forces with cities across Europe to encourage residents and businesses to tackle climate change.

City of York Council , together with York Environment Forum, will today launch the ENGAGEd! campaign, designed to boost awareness and usage of sustainable energy in the city. Posters of people and companies who take genuine action to deal with climate change will be produced as part of the drive, which is also taking place in cities such as Dijon and Helsinki. Aside from Leicester, York is the only UK city taking part in the initiative.

Kate Lock, who chairs York Environment Forum, said: “This campaign not only shows the many different and simple actions we can all take, it also encourages people because you can see others making a personal commitment.”

The ENGAGEd! team will be at the York Food and Drink Festival marquee in Parliament Street between 5pm and 9pm today for a night of free music from Conor Mellor and Isis Dunthorne, Reasons Breeds Monsters, Tandem and Eclectic Sparks, as well as films on what other European cities are doing on the issue.

Comments(8)

Mr Anderson says...
8:31am Tue 25 Sep 12

Is not petrol fumes a contributor to global warming? Yet this bunch of idiots we call a council are reducing speeds across the city to 20mph. Therefore increasing the levels of carbon monoxide levels. Total bunch of fools. Roll on the next local election where we can be rid of these hypocrites and return to 30mph.

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york_chap says...
9:26am Tue 25 Sep 12

"Aside from Leicester, York is the only UK city taking part in the initiative." Yes - other UK cities prioritise their spending/initiatives based on providing better services to local people. We get slower roads and now this nonsense.

Climate change is inevitable, so why 'tackle it'?. At various times in history the land this country occupies has been covered in frozen glaciers and thick ice and at other times has had tropical animals roaming its hot, grassy plains. All this before there was any such thing as man-made pollution. Today we're somewhere between the two. Trying to stop climate change is akin to trying to make water flow uphill.

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Ignatius Lumpopo says...
9:46am Tue 25 Sep 12

I think climate change is an excellent idea, and the fact that York is taking part in this European initiative can only lead to good things. For a start, I think we should change our climate for something like what they have in Valencia. Just think how rich we'd all be if we had the sort of heating bills our European neighbours have in the Mediterranean.

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Omega Point says...
10:40am Tue 25 Sep 12

Ignatius Lumpopo wrote:
I think climate change is an excellent idea, and the fact that York is taking part in this European initiative can only lead to good things. For a start, I think we should change our climate for something like what they have in Valencia. Just think how rich we'd all be if we had the sort of heating bills our European neighbours have in the Mediterranean.
To continue the line, what will Valencia be like

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Mister Sheen says...
10:49am Tue 25 Sep 12

Where's CaC today? Is he not up yet? Or is his broadband the victim of localised flooding?

I'm worried about him!

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jorvik says...
5:14pm Tue 25 Sep 12

york_chap wrote:
"Aside from Leicester, York is the only UK city taking part in the initiative." Yes - other UK cities prioritise their spending/initiatives based on providing better services to local people. We get slower roads and now this nonsense.

Climate change is inevitable, so why 'tackle it'?. At various times in history the land this country occupies has been covered in frozen glaciers and thick ice and at other times has had tropical animals roaming its hot, grassy plains. All this before there was any such thing as man-made pollution. Today we're somewhere between the two. Trying to stop climate change is akin to trying to make water flow uphill.
Spot on

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Woody G Mellor says...
5:25pm Tue 25 Sep 12

Is this some kind of a joke? They reduce the speed limit to 20mph which inturn produces more exhaust fumes. Clowns.

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Magicman! says...
3:44am Wed 26 Sep 12

here's how to tackle 'climate change', march to america and tell them to shut down HAARP or else, because that is what is causing the poor weather we're having, which just so happens to fit the template that Al Gore said would happen with 'global warming', which then got renamed to 'climate change' after everybody in the UK welcomed global warming with open arms and the americans realised they wouldn't win people over from here with that spin, so they happened to just change what would happen to the weather in our country. Then HAARP is built in 2007 and since then we've had terrible summers. It is a major smokescreen so that people are so preoccupied with this bs that they don't realise the actual cause and send ICBM's their way. And in order to try and keep spinning the lie they feed out various reasons why 'climate skeptics' are bad: such as saying they'd be the same sort of people to approve of slavery, or calling such skeptics simple minded people and rednecks... and once one side has to resort to name-calling the other side, then you know their side is the losing side and thus is wrong.

Now IF there is any sort of climate change occuring, a) it will be due to naturally occuring events such as sunspot activity, b) is not directly related to carbon emissions, seeing as CO2 was higher in Roman times than it is now, and if carbon was to blame then why didn't things change during the industrial revolution, c) is completely out of our control.

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