With Cornwall Council having declared a Climate Emergency in January 2019, and an Ecological Emergency after COP26, you might assume councillors would be falling over themselves to get educated on the subject. Unfortunately you'd be wrong. Cornwall Councillors were offered free online Climate Literacy Training as part of their induction training after the May elections. Having heard that uptake on the training was on the low side, even after six months, I asked the council how many councillors had actually completed the training. Out of 87 councillors, just 5 have actually finished the package! According to Councillor Alvey, Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Change, there are other means for councillors to get educated on climate change, such as induction sessions in the Council's carbon neutral programme, and all-member briefings. Around 30 members have participated in either of those avenues, though it's unclear how much climate change and ecological informatio
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