News on Climate Change Action Plan

We'd like to wish everyone a lovely holiday period, whether you celebrate Christmas or any other holiday! It's a good time to celebrate the positives of this past year (and try to get past the tougher times). It's also a good opportunity to look ahead. For us, we're excited that 2021 will be the year that we adopt the Climate Change Action Plan, continue our efforts to reduce emissions and implement our ambitious plan.

If you're looking for any last-minute, sustainable gifts for your loved ones, check out Crop Drop's Haringey sustainable gift guide . Or, have a look at Haringey's Christmas Advent Calendar showcasing lots of offers from local businesses. This will this help support our local businesses in these difficult times. For gifts made locally, it will also significantly reduce the emissions from sending the gifts over long distances. And, if you want to reduce your packaging because it is made from plastic and is polluting our natural environment, put your order in at the Harmless store in Crouch End.

Are you looking for sustainable wrapping ideas? Have you tried furoshiki fabric wraps, a Japanese tradition of reusing gift wrapping? Or you could reuse old wrapping paper, old newspaper, magazine pages, or pieces of cloth or other materials. Decorations could include stamps, drawings, herbs, snippets of your Christmas tree, of reused ribbon. You can find creative ideas suggestions here or on this blog . And, you can start your own supply of recycled gift wrapping this year! I personally have a big supply of fun, oddly shaped pieces; my quilt-wrapped presents are my signature pieces.

Please take this opportunity to try out our Carbon Projects Priority Simulator if you haven't already! The interactive website gives you a unique chance to find out more about our carbon reduction plans.

Please share our external Climate Change Action Plan engagement pages with people you know who live, work or volunteer locally. And, please take a look at the other parts of the webpage if you haven't already .