At the third weekend, the assembly discussed and decided on a range of recommendations on what the future should look like in, and on the way to, a net zero society and the different policy options that would get the UK there.
The assembly remained in their groups from weekend two and reflected on the evidence they heard at the previous weekends. The groups considered key topics relating to how we live: 'how we travel', 'in the home', 'what we buy' and 'land use, food and farming'. Each group had the opportunity to learn about topics considered by other groups to help inform their own discussions and decisions.
For each topic, there were three sets of decisions the assembly members had to reach:
- First, the assembly drafted, discussed and prioritised considerations they believe Government and Parliament should bear in mind when cutting emissions in different areas of life.
- Then, the members discussed and voted on various future scenarios which responded to the range of evidence the assembly heard on reducing emissions in four areas of life, as well as the members own initial preferences discussed at weekend two.
- Finally, the assembly members discussed and voted on policy options for achieving those changes and ranked them in order of preference.
All the votes taken by Climate Assembly UK were conducted by secret ballot. At the end of the voting period, assembly members have an opportunity to raise anything else they feel that Parliament and Government should consider on reducing emissions.
Written briefings
Assembly members were provided with written briefings on the different topics:
These briefings were written by the Expert Leads with advice and input from the Advisory Panel.
Private discussions
Given that were no speaker presentations at weekend three, it was not live streamed. Further speaker presentations at the fourth and final weekend will be live streamed. Conversations between assembly members are private and never live streamed to ensure they feel able to have full and frank discussions. The presentations by previous expert speakers, which provide the basis for assembly members’ discussions, as well as some Q&A sessions with assembly members, were live streamed and can be viewed on the meeting agenda pages.
Agenda
The agenda for each group varied slightly but broadly followed this structure:
Saturday 29th February
Introduction to weekend three
Table discussions on group topic: 'how we travel', 'in the home', 'what we buy' or 'land use, food and farming'
Reflection on discussions so far
Consideration of future scenarios
Vote
Break for lunch
Introduction to table discussions on policy options
Table discussions
Vote
Table discussions
Vote
Sunday 1st March
Introduction to the day
Table discussions
Reflection on discussions so far
Vote
Table discussions
Vote
Table discussions