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Carbon Neutral Programme Update and Approval of Carbon Neutral 2045 Action Plan

 

 

Meeting: 30/01/2025 - Environment and Communities Committee (Item 17)

17 Wider Borough Carbon Action Plan 2025-2030 pdf icon PDF 454 KB

To consider a report on the Council’s carbon action plan.

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Minutes:

The committee considered the report on the Wider Borough Carbon Action Plan 2025-2030.

 

There was a full debate during which it was acknowledged that there were many challenges within the global context and some members felt that the plan did not provide sufficient detail on how targets would be met, meaning they were unable to support the plan in its current form. Other members felt that the plan provided a good framework for action.

 

 

RESOLVED (by majority):

 

That the Environment and Communities Committee:

 

  1. Approve and adopt the Wider Borough Carbon Action Plan 2025-30 and delegate authority to the Head of Environmental Services to make necessary modifications to the Plan, subject to annual status updates to the committee

 

  1. Specifically to agree and endorse the overarching recommendations within the plan, namely:

 

a)    All strategies, plans and policies created or refreshed by the council to incorporate carbon reduction and climate change considerations as a key element of their outcomes

b)    A member of each service area (and teams where relevant), to have carbon reduction as an element of their key roles and responsibilities. These officers to then form together an ongoing Carbon Board chaired by the council’s Head of Environmental Services

c)    Cheshire East Council will continue to use its influence to encourage and enable carbon reduction activity to take place across the borough of Cheshire East and throughout the council’s own procurement supply chain

d)    Cheshire East Council will consider the impacts to vulnerable groups for any policy or action that will be taken and where applicable target interventions and advice at affected groups

 

  1. Approve that a Climate Change Member Working Group be constituted under the remit of the Committee in accordance with the Terms of Reference contained at Appendix 4

 

  1. To note the progress made towards the council’s target to reach operational carbon neutrality by 2027 as detailed in Appendix 5