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The motion submitted by
Councillor Graves, subject to amendments raised at the meeting, was
approved as follows:

“This motion proposes that Woking Borough Council notes
that:

The Climate and Nature Bill was introduced in the House of Commons
on 21 March 2024.

The Bill is backed by cross-party MPs and Peers and local
authorities.

The Climate and Nature Bill requires the Government to:

1.      Deliver an
environmental plan for the climate and nature;

2.      Reduce greenhouse
gas emissions to 1.5°C to ensure emissions are reduced in line
with the best chance of meeting the UK’s Paris Agreement
obligations;

3.      Halt and reverse
the decline in nature and set it measurably on the path to recovery
by 2030;

4.      Take
responsibility for our overseas carbon and industrial footprint

5.      Prioritise nature
in decision-making and end fossil fuel production and imports as
rapidly as possible;

6.      Provide
re-training for those people currently working in fossil fuel
industries; and

7.      Give the British
people a say in finding a fair way forward via a temporary,
independent and representative Climate & Nature Assembly, as
part of creating consensus.

And that Woking Council therefore resolves to:

1.      Support the
Climate and Nature Bill;

2.      Inform residents
and inform local media of this decision.

3.      Write to our MP
to inform him that this motion has been passed, and urge him to
sign up to support the Climate and Nature Bill;

4.      Write to Zero
Hour, expressing WBC’s support.”