Jessica Vaughan, Planning Officer at Plymouth City Council, will join us to explain about the annual Plymouth Climate Challenge and the #BackTheFuture LIVE event that just happened in association with Crowdfunder.  This initiative encourages anyone in the local community of Plymouth to propose initiatives with a positive environmental impact on the city and its residents, and rewards the winners with significant cash injections for their projects.

Antony Jinman, polar adventurer and ‘local boy’ from Wembury/Plymstock, will explain how his explorations to both poles and his ‘Education Through Expeditions’ (ETE) initiative to date have fuelled his desire for climate change education to be improved generally and how his proposed Plymouth Climate Challenge project this year ‘Our Planet, Your Path’ within a disused shop unit in our City centre could assist this.

Caroline Blackler, who works in PR and Comms for POP, was inspired to pursue her Plymouth Climate Challenge idea last year despite having to pull out of the competition because of Lockdown2. Caroline is passionate that many of the post-war flat-roofed buildings in our city centre could - and should- be retrofitted with 'biosolar' roofs which would offer multiple benefits; mitigate many of the impacts of the climate crisis and help the city achieve zero carbon. As well as providing renewable energy from the photovoltaic arrays, the green roofs would act as a sponge; retain rainwater to be harvested and - significantly - help to mitigate the flood impact of the climate crisis in Plymouth City Centre.