Milliband's experiment

[xoggoth]

Not sure if any of you follow the political blogs but if not, well worth checking out the items on Milliband's pompous experiment, the "Environmental contract" using wiki technology. It soon got withdrawn after many people, who know from experience that any attempt by this government to "consult" is totally phony, added lots of good old abuse and items like owl magnet under section headings such as "tools to do the job"

Guido Fawkes blog

[vetran]

ha ha

These tools need to:

• Remove some barriers and put in place others
• Create the right incentive frameworks to shape individual choices
• Communicate and engage with people effectively
• Show that government practises what it preaches

Tools that remove barriers include:

• Providing simple, trustworthy and timely information.
• Offering convenient and well targeted personal advice and support for action.
• Providing essential infrastructure
• Equipping people with necessary skills

Tools that create the right incentive frameworks include:

• Environmental taxes and charges
• Grant schemes for working towards environmental targets
• Emissions trading schemes and other market based incentive schemes
• Product standard regulations -- and a clear forward path
• Voluntary and negotiated agreements
• removal of subsidies to environmentally unfriendly behaviour

Tools that communicate and engage with people effectively include:

• Viral marketing
• Working through NGOs and community based organisations
• Well targeted advertising campaigns

Tools that show that government practises what it preaches include:

• Sustainable public procurement
• Politicians modelling good environmental behaviours
• Setting high sustainability standards when disposing of land for development
• Adequate funding for information, advice and support services
• A clear framework for assessing and improving the sustainability performance of local and central Government

They really believe they can do this? Maybe they are going to farm it out to the usual suspects.

[wendigo100]

How about just leave the feck alone? It's a well-known fact that New Labour's interfering with anything usually has the opposite effect to that intended. For example - let's see how the new refuse charging pushes up the incidences of fly-tipping.