The impact

Youth Climate Panel 
(case study 1)

The first Youth Climate Panel meeting took place on 21st September 2019. We are pleased to be working with 40 young people aged 16 - 25 years on developing our Climate Change Strategy.

Members of the panel gave Gloucestershire County Council feedback and raised ideas about improvements to the draft Climate Change Strategy 2020 – 2025 and action plan.

We will be using the feedback from the panel in our annual reviews of our county council Climate Change Strategy, along with the results from a public consultation held in the summer of 2019.

Funding for trees
(case study 2)

These funds will remove some of the barriers to upscaling tree planting and woodland creation in the county, including supporting the establishment of a new carbon offsetting scheme for Gloucestershire, run by an LNP/LEP coalition.

The funds will also enable the employment of a new woodland creation officer at GCC, as well as directly funding significant tree planting across the county, including in relatively nature-scarce urban areas of the Forest of Dean and Gloucester; along river banks to reduce the risk of flooding; and on farms to improve connectivity for biodiversity in existing woodland habitat.