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12.1

The Executive Director of City Futures
submitted a report that:
 
1. Responds to the Annual Climate Progress
Report 2022/23 in a timely manner;
 
2. Restates the cross-party council commitment
to taking what action we can to address the climate emergency,
adapt our city and council for a changing climate and reduce
emissions to achieve our ambition to be a net zero city and council
by 2030; and
 
3. Increases understanding of the impact
climate change will have on committees, the opportunities that
tackling climate change offers, and the contribution to climate and
net zero action each committee is currently making and needs to
make moving forward.

 

 

12.2

RESOLVED
UNANIMOUSLY: That Strategy and Resources Policy Committee:
 
(a) welcomes the Committee
Climate Statements, as detailed in the report now submitted, and
notes that these are work in progress and will evolve over time;
and
 
(b) requests that each Policy
Committee consider and, if not previously agreed, agree (with or
without amendments) their respective statement to ensure that the
proposed actions contained in such statement are reflected in their
Work Programme.

 

 

12.3

Reasons for
Decision

 

 

12.3.1

It is important that the response to the
Annual Climate Progress Report is open and transparent in setting
out the challenges which the local authority faces in making
progress and clarifies future expectations on the part we all
have to play in addressing climate
change.

 

 

12.3.2

Committee do not currently have specific
strategic goals for climate. The process required to develop these,
and have the statements approved to be read at each committee
meeting meant that option 5.2 in the report was not feasible with
the available resource and timeframe.

 

 

12.4

Alternatives
Considered and Rejected

 

 

12.4.1

Not providing committee climate statements
considered due to the resource required to collate.

 

 

12.4.2

Providing more detailed Committee Climate
Statements that provided an overview of strategic climate goals,
with each Chair then reading the committees statement publicly at
their respective committee meeting following release of the
report