The Green Party will be inviting passers-by to fill in their alternative
questionnaires at the “Your Council Your Say” events to be held at
different locations in the city this weekend and next. Green Party
co-chair Linda Duckenfield said, “We’re glad that the Council are
focussing on the environment after the ‘Sheffield is my Planet’ week
last month. But their questionnaire doesn’t show how the Council plans
to take the lead on tackling climate change.

“The options for our alternative questions show what the Council
actually have to do to help us lead greener lives. To “improve public
transport” they need to bring in Quality Bus Contracts. As well as
information about how to save energy people need practical help, for example in getting their houses insulated. And setting up a carbon offsetting scheme and hoping it will undo the damage isn’t nearly as effective as cutting down how much pollution we cause in the first place. So instead we ask people what they think of setting a “carbon footprint” of the city and drawing up a plan for the whole city to help reduce emissions.

The party's other co-chair, Steve Barnard, added “Our Green Councillors Jillian Creasy and Bernard Little got the Council to include ‘other options’ on the official ‘Your Council Your Say’ forms so Sheffield people had a real say in what they think should be done. We hope that the answers to both questionnaires will show that the residents of this city want real, practical action on climate change, not vague promises and ‘greenwash’ .”

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