Including the closely related term sustainability.
… the council. It specifically highlights this is a starting point, setting out the direction of travel required to address these emergencies in the long-term. It notes that urgent and sustained action is required to meet the challenging commitments, and the action plan needs to be dynamic and evolve over time to take account of progress and an evolving scientific, technological and legislative…
… • Adopting hybrid working arrangements to ensure we maximise the use of digital technology to remove the need to travel and lock in the gains made through working at home during the Covid 19 pandemic Next Steps • Embed travel plan requirements within the council’s transformation programmes, particularly the way we work and digital • Hybrid working arrangement to continue to support sustainable…
… farms to implement sustainable management practices and schemes, this will include ecological surveys of some Dorset Council’s County farms looking at potential for habitat restoration and creation. (see below) • County Farm barn owl project to establishing owl boxes at some sites Reduce carbon impact of managing green space • Electric ATV in operation at Thorn combe Wood • Solar PV…
… • New Corporate Director of Climate and Ecological Sustainability appointed (started 9 May 2022) • Governance structure agreed and being put in place to ensure delivery, monitoring and development of strategy and action plan in long term. Will include: - Senior level steering group - Clear roles and responsibilities across services - Robust monitoring and report framework - Integration…
… investment to include – • £4.8m European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) – to extend Low Carbon Dorset programme to 2023 (£8.25million in total ERDF) • £79m Transforming Cities Fund (TCF) with BCP Council - to deliver sustainable travel in DC and BCP areas • £19m Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS) - Building retrofit • £859K Green Homes Grants (with BCP Council) to support Healthy Homes…