Fit all schools with solar panels within the next five years

[WindsweptEgret]

I just signed this UK Government and Parliament petition and thought I'd post it on here.

Making all UK schools zero emissions will be a positive step for the country and this can start by powering education with solar energy. This will allow for progress to make Britain a zero emissions country and meet our targets, whilst also having economic advantages in the long term.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/260967

[AuntieStella]

Yes, agree

We might not be able to afford the programme right now (or at least not all at once) but it's the sort of thing there needs to be a commitment to roll out. Ditto for all local authority owned buildings.

Start with it being a compulsory feature of all new builds and something to be added in all renovations. And then fit others on a (probably much slower) rolling programme of specific upgrade

[LilyMumsnet]

We're just moving this over to our petitions topic now.

[WindsweptEgret]

I'm not sure that we can afford not to make significant rapid changes though. Net zero carbon by 2050 will be too late. I think we need to look at the circumstances and respond as if it were a wartime situation.

[AuntieStella]

I think wartime is going a bit too far!

But agree. This is important and a clear duty to make this happen could be a good thing