Finding hope amidst beauty: the Yorkshire Dales' ambitious plan for carbon reduction ('Insights', series 1 - episode 7)

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🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority has recently adopted a Carbon Reduction Plan that aims to reduce its emissions by 95 per cent by 2030. Ruth Chambers interviews the authority’s chief executive, David Butterworth, to find out how the organisation used its emergency powers to launch such an ambitious agenda despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Green Alliance podcast. My name is Sean Spears and I'm Green
0:09.1	Alliance's director and I'm really pleased to welcome you to the latest edition of our
0:12.7	podcast. What is an unsettling, uncertain time for us all, we want to use the podcast to
0:17.8	keep people informed of the latest news and developments in environmental
0:21.1	politics and policy. At Green Alliance, we'll be doing our best to connect people and foster
0:26.1	the conversations we need to be having, including through online events and this podcast series.
0:31.6	As ever, your suggestions and feedback will be very welcome.
0:36.7	Hello and welcome to the Green Alliance Insights
0:39.3	Podcast. I'm Ruth Chambers, Green Alliance's Parliamentary Advisor and for this episode,
0:45.0	I spoke with David Butterworth, an old friend of mine who is also the chief executive of the
0:49.7	Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. It is stunning, but there are tens of thousands of people missing from it at the moment.
0:57.0	David gave me an insight into his newly launched and extremely ambitious carbon reduction plan,
1:02.0	which if achieved will make the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority one of the UK's leading organisations in carbon reduction.
1:10.0	We can be part of the post-COVID solution. We can be part
1:13.9	of the delivery of a better society and we can deal with climate change. Stay tuned to hear more from
1:19.4	David as he tells us about his passion for the UK's national parks, these beautiful landscapes
1:24.7	that are also going to be an important part of the post-COVID-19 recovery,
1:30.1	creating a healthier and greener society.
1:34.2	David, a warm welcome to you, first of all.
1:37.0	And could you tell us something about this carbon reduction plan and also why you decided to go ahead with it now?
1:43.6	Good afternoon, Ruth. I think the key for us was
1:46.5	you'll recall last year there were a number of organisations that launched climate emergencies.
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