The Bude Area Community Jury on Climate Change revealed its recommendations for the first time to an engaged audience at the Falcon Hotel, Bude, on 15 January 2024.
The 29 recommendations and 11 principles were drawn up after more than 1,000 hours of jury deliberation and debate, over three weekends in autumn 2023. They can be found HERE
Several prominent figures from Cornwall Council and the Environment Agency attended the event, alongside 18 town and parish Councillors, and many made commitments to help deliver the recommendations.
Justin Ridgewell, Senior Advisor (Coast), Environment Agency, said: “It’s not an overstatement to say
this was a ground-breaking event. To have 100 or so people from a rural community gathered in a
public space on a cold Monday night in January to talk about sea level rise and seriously think about
the future is really remarkable.
“Of particular importance was the demographic spread and variation of the Jury. It’s so important to
have that multi-generational representation in these kind of conversations, but historically it’s been
so difficult to achieve when we go out into communities to talk about climate change and shoreline
planning. So this feels like a real step change.”
