The Partnership held its 2008 annual forum in City Hall on July 3rd, again kindly sponsored by British Gas. This year’s theme was Low Carbon London: from vision to reality. More than 150 delegates listened to an excellent keynote speech by Lord Adair Turner, Chairman of the new statutory Climate Change Committee. Lord Turner outlined how the Committee will evaluate progress towards the Government’s climate change targets.
The following two plenary sessions focused on decentralised energy, with presentations on a number of decentralised energy schemes and a panel discussion on biomass (with much of the debate focusing on air quality issues).
Mayor Boris Johnson joined the Forum at lunchtime and announced a new programme of ten Low Carbon Zones, to be developed in collaboration with the LEP and some of its partners.
Three afternoon workshops sessions looked at Local Area Agreements, Fuel Poverty and Low Carbon Zones. The interactive Low Carbon Zones session included a ‘Dragon’s Den’ in which four teams pitched their ideas of what a Low Carbon Zone could look like.
The presentations and other documents from the Forum are available in the Library section of the website.