News on Yorkshire and Humber Climate Action Plan

The Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission wants your views on how best to develop a food system that provides for all in a healthy and sustainable way.

The Commission has been gathering feedback via our Commonplace platform on priorities and guiding principles for Yorkshire and Humber’s food system which we set out in a draft Climate Action Report exploring the issue.

The report draws on input from a range of experts, including the work of the region’s FixOurFood project. Contributions received via our Commonplace survey will help us further develop the report, which will make recommendations for a Yorkshire-wide approach to future land use and will ultimately be presented to regional leaders and decision makers.

The Commonplace survey has already received a number of interesting comments and suggestions, which you can read and decide whether to agree with. But we’d like more feedback to build on this picture, so please give us your views!

The short (five minutes) survey invites responses on key aspects of the draft report, including four principles for a sustainable, regional food system:

The paper also identifies key actions aimed at addressing food insecurity in the region - which at 20.6%far exceeds the national average of 15.5%.

As our climate changes, we face even more challenges in ensuring everyone has access to enough healthy, sustainable food. Your views can help us set out a way of doing that in Yorkshire and Humber – please give us your feedback today!