Purpose

The council called a climate emergency on 11
July 2019. Following this, a cross party Climate Change Emergency
Working Group was established and on 2 September 2021, this was
reconstituted to a Climate Change Cabinet Advisory Group (CAG) to
consider specific aspects of the emerging strategies and advise the
cabinet accordingly.
 
The new Cabinet Member leading on climate
change has requested that this CAG continues and is made
public.
 
The CAG will oversee progress with the Net
Zero Strategy and action plan and on the following pledge:
 
As part of this
declaration the Council has resolved to:
· 
make Thanet District Council net zero by 2030 in our
core carbon footprint (this includes emissions we have direct
control over e.g. the estates and activities that we own and
manage)
· 
address emissions that Thanet District Council has
partial control over (those outside of the core carbon footprint
e.g. projects, procurement and social housing) as soon as possible,
and by 2050 at the latest.
· 
support KCC, the Government, business, industry and
the community to make Thanet as a whole net zero by
2050.
In order
to make these targets possible we will:

· 
call on Westminster to provide the powers and
resources to make the targets possible;

· 
continue to work with partners across the County and
region to deliver this new goal through all relevant
strategies;

· 
investigate all possible sources of external funding
and match funding to support this commitment.
 

Decision

The Climate Change
CAG is re-established with the terms of reference and membership as
reflected in the attached in
Annex
1. Climate Change CAG meetings will be public
and held in the council chambers. Minutes of meetings will be
retained as a record of discussions and published on the
council’s website.