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By Tegwen Green (left) and Nancy Singh (right), Office for National Statistics
For the last fifteen months Nancy and I have been working with users and producers of statistics to develop a user engagement strategy for statistics.
The strategy sets out a plan of action for building a more meaningful and sustained dialogue between producers, users and potential users of statistics. Its principles are widely relevant to anyone conducting analysis across different professions.
We want to spread the word about the value of user engagement, in the midst of a pandemic, more than ever. We’ve highlighted five important things we want you to remember about user engagement. You might know some of them already – if so, then perhaps share them with your colleagues as well!
Getting beyond the climate wishlists: the struggle to turn carbon pledges into action
Councils face an uphill struggle to turn their carbon reduction pledges into meaningful action.
The post-Covid recovery needs to be green if local and national commitments to tackle climate change are to be met.
The scale of the challenge is significant; it took the UK 26 years to cut emissions by 40% from 1990 levels. A further 40% must now be cut in a decade, but much of the cheaper and less disruptive low-hanging fruit has already been picked.
So far councils have lacked the direction and tools they need from the centre to take the necessary measures to honour the climate emergency pledges they have made, particularly regarding retrofitting buildings and decarbonising energy systems on an area-wide scale. Work to improve energy efficiency has been hampered by the demise of a flagship government programme. The £1.5bn green homes grant voucher scheme was scrapped six months after its launch
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Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission gets to work
An independent advisory group has been launched to support ambitious climate action in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission brings together a team of climate leaders from across public, private and third sectors in what is the largest regional commission of its kind in the UK.
Professor Andy Gouldson, Executive Dean at the University Of Leeds’ Faculty of Environment, is director of the new commission and will oversee its work.
Chaired by Liz Barber, CEO of Yorkshire Water, the commission aims to help the region reduce its carbon emissions as quickly as possible and ensure that people in Yorkshire are prepared to cope with the growing impacts of climate change, such as heatwaves, flooding and sea level rise.
Study shows net zero transition to affect over six million jobs, as criticism grows of Budget s climate failure
Just Transition Jobs Tracker details how around one in five UK jobs are likely to be affected either positively or negatively by the net zero transition, further cranking up pressure on government to deliver coherent transition plan
A new analysis has today sought to quantify the scale of the jobs impact from the transition to a net zero emission economy, as the government comes under fresh criticism for its failure to come forward.
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