A Carbon Budget for Coventry

75% of people in an online poll wanted governments to tackle climate change by making a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 3 percent each year.

This is the position of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, and it will be highlighted by a few rock concerts this weekend (as Thom Yorke, of Radiohead, is a lead supporter of the coalition).

Governments are being urged to "employ all policy tools at its disposal, that emissions are controlled in all sectors of the economy, and that governments take into account the carbon-creating effects of non-environmental policies."

What I would like at the Coventry level is a system of scrutiny and reporting on carbon emissions by the council itself. We can't expect the rest of Coventry to practice what we would preach if the council doesn't lead the process.