Designing a Net Zero Reading

The Reading Climate Change Partnership (RCCP) are creating a draft Climate Emergency Strategy for 2025-30. We are keen to get input to the strategy at this early stage from everybody who lives, learns, works or plays in Reading. The aim is to do this in a way which involves people with different interests. It is therefore vital that local communities and stakeholders share ideas and suggestions.

This process started with an event for young people to share their perspectives and ideas about Net Zero Reading. This was followed by a workshop in June where 38 people came together from a wide range of interests. They shared information, views, suggested and discussed important areas to focus on.

This initial work has been analysed and collated into a draft vision for a Net Zero Reading and 6 focus areas. A further focus area around education and behaviour change was also put forward and will be discussed at an upcoming workshop.

This is the first of two opportunities to have your say on what has initially emerged from the workshops - whether you have been involved so far or not.

You can respond to all or some of these focus areas. We realise some people are interested in the whole picture and others in a particular aspect, and we welcome all responses.

The survey will take less than 10 minutes. You can indicate your support for each focus area and the ideas suggested within it. A few minutes more will allow time to leave short additional suggestions. What you say will be analysed and summarised to inform future workshops.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to do this.

Please note: the focus areas in this survey come from all those who took part in the workshop and youth engagement in June, including RCCP partners and many others. At this stage they are not final plans, but suggestions of what could be included in the strategy. Final content for the strategy depends on: responses to this survey, the discussions at upcoming workshops in the Autumn, the second public survey, and being able to find resources to help deliver.


If you have any technical issues with the survey, please get in touch with Dialogue Matters at enquiries@dialoguematters.co.uk