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… Climate Change Strategy Page | 1 CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY FOR WEST OXFORDSHIRE 2021-2025 Climate Action as a District Presented to Full Council: 24th February 2021 (Revision made at Cabinet: 24th March 2021) Page | 2 Contents 1.0 Introduction…
… Introduction 1.1 Why a Climate Change Strategy? West Oxfordshire District Council is in the unique position of being able both to contribute strategically to climate action for Oxfordshire and the South East, whilst also being able to take local, grassroots action in the district. We can: ● listen and respond to the individual and collective views of residents and communities; ● influence…
… to deliver local benefit. In line with the commitments set out in the Council Plan (2020-2024), this Climate Change Strategy (“Strategy”) has been developed as the framework for how the Council’s priorities for climate action across the district, for 2021-2025, can be achieved. In 2020, we saw change few could have imagined. In what is widely regarded as a fast-paced and quickly evolving…
… and in June 2019, the UK became the first country to legislate long-term climate targets by introducing a legally binding net-zero carbon emissions target to end the UK’s contribution to global warming entirely by 2050. In recognition of the urgency and importance of local action in response to a global concern, on 26th June 2019, West Oxfordshire District Council declared its Motion to address…
… pandemic and recognising the value communities in the district place on the natural environment. The Prime Minister has also, in 2020, noted it as a “defining year of climate action” for the planet in discussion ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), and recently published The Ten-Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution1. The UK government…