Content

10.1

The Executive Director City Futures submitted a
report containing the Strategy and Resources Policy Committee
Climate Statement which:
 
1. Responds to the Annual Climate Progress Report
2022/23 in a timely manner;
 
2. Restates 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;
and
 
3. Increases 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, on the back of the
decision taken by this Committee at its meeting held on 13 December
2023 (12.2 (b)) this Committee agrees the Strategy and Resources
Policy Committee Climate Statement, as set out in the report, 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.