People in the UK want bold climate action - why aren't politicians listening? | Carys Roberts

Across the country, citizens' juries have shown strong support for ambitious green policies that improve livesThe fight against climate change is often presented as a binary decision between a costly but sustainable future or missing environmental targets while protecting people's jobs. Not only is this framing environmentally dangerous, it's politically unnecessary. There is strong support for ambitious government policy to tackle the climate crisis, and optimism about the positive benefits of doing so, as long as the measures taken are fair.The IPPR Environmental Justice Commission, which publishes its final blueprint for a fair transition today, has seen this first-hand from hundreds of hours of conversations with citizens across the UK. Over the past 18 months, we have convened "citizens' juries", where people from different areas are randomly invited to take part in a series of events, to hear from experts and discuss and propose their own ideas. We spoke with people from all walks of life and different viewpoints in Aberdeenshire, Tees Valley and County Durham, Thurrock and south Wales. In each place, we asked these jurors what a fair transition would look like to them. Continue reading...