Decision

Environmental Policy Statement

RESOLVED that:-

(a)      Cabinet maintain its commitment to tackling climate change and to the development of a new Climate Change Action Plan which will set out the actions, work programme and targets that will be progressed over the period 2024 to 2026;

(b)      Cabinet adopt the Environmental Policy Statement and continuously strive to meet the on-going commitments contained within the statement (see Appendix A) and the actions and targets (see Appendix B) to the report;

(c)      the Environment Policy Statement be widely communicated and publicised to help raise public awareness, engagement and active participation on environmental matters across the county and

(d)      Cabinet note the ‘Potential Areas of Additional Environmental Activity’ outlined in section 5.4 of the report. It is intended that these additional areas of activity will be subject to further development and, where appropriate, any associated budget implications will be considered as part of this year’s MTFP budget setting process.