Including the closely related terms climate change, climate change, and climate.
… climate change locally; and to explore an expansion of community energy. Further, it agreed to work with partners to deliver carbon reductions and grow the local economy and to establish a Citizens Assembly made up of a representative range of citizens and make recommendations for our Council. 3.3 Delivering Carbon Neutrality by 2030 is not a formal corporate priority objective for the Council…
… to provide the necessary powers and resources to make local action on climate change easier. 3. Encourage this Council to explore the expansion of community energy to keep the benefits of our local energy generation in our local economy. 4. Continue to work with partners anchored in the area to deliver carbon reductions and grow the local economy. 5. Establish a Citizens Assembly made up…
… of a representative range of our citizens to establish the facts and make recommendations for our council. Carbon Reduction Targets 5.2 There are a plethora of different timescales for achieving carbon neutrality. The Government has established a statutory target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as recommended by the Committee on Climate Change. The West Midlands Combined Authority (of which Cannock…
… Change recommendation. Extinction Rebellion, a climate change pressure group has recommended a net zero target of 2025 which has most recently been adopted by Warwick District Council. 5.3 Cannock Chase Council has adopted a much shorter timescale to achieve carbon neutrality than the statutory target of 2050 and this means that action to achieve this will need to be compressed within a period…
… and implement a 10 year action plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. The Council currently has one officer whose role includes approximately 10% allocated to climate change / carbon reduction. The Council has never had any agreed action plan and does not currently have a programme of work aimed at delivering carbon neutrality by 2030. 5.12 As part of its financial strategy over the past 8 years…