Issue - meetings

Climate Change Strategy

Meeting: 17/09/2024 - Environment and Sustainability Committee (Item 45)

45 Climate Change Strategy Progress Update pdf icon PDF 438 KB

To consider:

1)    Agreeing the publication of the Climate Change Strategy Progress Report

2)    Approving the changes to the Climate Change Strategy Action Plan

Additional documents:

Decision:

The Committee resolved to

1)    Agree to the publication of the Climate Change Strategy Progress Report, and

2)    Approve the changes to the Climate Change Strategy Action Plan.

Minutes:

The Committee received a progress report on the Climate Change Strategy from the Sustainability and Flood Risk Officer. Following a declaration of a Climate Emergency by the Council in 2020, a Climate Change Strategy was developed and adopted in September 2022. Though there were many positive and completed actions to report, the Council’s emissions had increased.

 

The Committee resolved to

1)    Agree to the publication of the Climate Change Strategy Progress Report, and

2)    Approve the changes to the Climate Change Strategy Action Plan.