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10.1

The Committee Climate Statements:
 

1.    
Respond to the Annual Climate Progress Report 2022/23 in a timely
manner.
 

2.    
Restate 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.
 

3.    
Increase 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.

 

 

10.2

RESOLVED
UNANIMOUSLY: That the Finance
Committee consider and agree the Statement of Climate
Commitments relevant to the Finance Committee to ensure that the
proposed actions contained in such statement are reflected in their
Work Programme.

 

 

10.3

Reasons for Decision

 

 

10.3.1

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.

 

 

10.3.2

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 was not
feasible with the available resource and timeframe.

 

 

10.4

Alternatives Considered and Rejected

 

 

10.4.1

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

 

 

10.4.2

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.