Issue - items at meetings - Developing the Councils Green Agenda Monitoring Report
Issue - meetings
Developing the Councils Green Agenda Monitoring Report
Meeting: 18/03/2021 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 20)
To receive and consider the report of the Deputy Chief Executive (to follow).
Minutes:
Zoe Whiteside, Service Lead - Spatial Planning, Planning and Development provided the update.
The final report of the Task Group was presented to Cabinet in March 2020. Sally Green, Climate Change Programme Officer was recruited to the post this month.
The first meeting of the member led Climate Change Working Group took place inFebruary. The main objective of the Working Group was to monitor the activity of the green agenda, to ensure the Council was on course to meet the zero net emissions target by 2030, in addition to monitoring all other targets and ambitions set by the Council and from the upcoming Environment Bill.
It was recommended that future updates to Overview and Scrutiny were accompanied by the minutes of the Working Group. The scope of the Working Group was broad and expansive. For the Overview and Scrutiny Committee in September, a more detailed report would be presented to members.
The Green Agenda had been allocated £500,000.
Ruth Rimmington, Democratic Services Team Leader. suggested that Sally Green conducted a Member Learning Session to allow all Members to access updates relating to the Green Agenda in the new municipal year.
Decision: The report was noted