This is your last chance to have your say on Dorset Council's draft Climate and Ecological Emergency Strategy.

The strategy presents eight key areas for action by Dorset Council to ensure its services and estate become carbon neutral by 2040, and across the whole Dorset Council area by 2050.

It has also set out actions in the council's overall approach and how we intend to make it happen via leadership, funding, communications and progress reporting.

The council wants to gather feedback from residents in order to develop the plans and initiatives to achieve a carbon neutral Dorset.

The draft strategy can be found here.

The survey can be found here.

Responses must be submitted by the end of Wednesday, January 20 to be included in the consultation feedback. Make sure you click the submit button when you are finished.

Cllr Ray Bryan, Dorset Council's portfolio holder for highways, travel and environment, said: "We've done the research, listened to the ideas, had the discussions, and come up with a broad, ambitious and deliverable plan for how we propose to tackle the climate and ecological emergency. We need now to know what our residents think of it.

"This consultation is vitally important, as the strategy will directly and indirectly affect virtually every service we deliver in the future. We want to hear from as many different people as possible, from students to retirees, working families to businesses, community groups, town and parish councils and everyone in-between.

"We recommend taking the time to read the whole strategy before filling out the survey, but if it's simply too unwieldly and/or you don't have time, just read up on the sections you are interested in and only respond to the questions that cover those.

"Dorset Council believes that this work is incredibly important. Just sitting by and letting others address this crisis is not an option. We need to work together to overcome this monumental challenge. What we all do - or don't do - to address this climate and ecological emergency will impact our children, grandchildren and every other generation for centuries to come."

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