Issue - meetings
Climate Change Mitigation & Adoption Strategy
Meeting: 31/10/2017 - Cabinet (Item 5)
5 Climate Change Mitigation & Adoption Strategy PDF 155 KB
Additional documents:
- 5.1a - Appendix One - Air Quality Climate Change Strategy - Final, item 5 PDF 3 MB
- 5.1b - Appendix Two Air Quality Action Plan 2017 6.10.17, item 5 PDF 2 MB
- 5.1c - Appendix Three Consultation Report_v1, item 5 PDF 157 KB
- 5.1d - Appendix Four EQIA Checklist, item 5 PDF 86 KB
- Webcast for Climate Change Mitigation & Adoption Strategy
Decision:
DECISION
1. To note that a mayoral priority growth bid was passed and an air quality fund has been approved in the last budget. The fund is for £200,000 over a two year period of 17/18 and 18/19. The fund is intended for ‘prospective bidders to support activities aligned to the Council priorities in improving air quality’. Criteria for the proposed projects include:
· be related to either reducing emissions of, reducing exposure to or increasing awareness of air pollution;
· be directly relevant to actions in our AQAP;
· have a measurable impact; and
· have wider community benefits
2. To approve the Air Quality and Climate Change Strategy.
3. To approve the Air Quality Action Plan.
Action by:
ACTING CORPORATE DIRECTOR, PLACE (A. SUTCLIFFE)
(Service Manager for Energy and Sustainability (A. Khan)
(Head of Trading Standards and Environmental Health (D. Tolley)
Minutes:
Councillor Rachel Blake, Cabinet Member for Strategic Development introduced the report. She welcomed the report as a vital step in tackling the poor air quality suffered across the Borough. She explained that the Council had consulted widely on the planned Strategy which had been particularly beneficial in highlighting areas where awareness raising would be effective. She highlighted that a number of the specific actions set out, such as developing charging points for electric vehicles, were already being progressed.
Kate Hand, Hackney and Tower Hamlets Friends of the Earth, addressed the Cabinet meeting. She welcomed the report as a big step forward for the Borough. She urged the Council to pursue the most ambitious targets possible and, in particular, requested the Council review some of the existing targets to make sure they were specifically measurable.
Following discussion of the report, the Mayor thanked everyone for their contributions and welcomed the report. He also welcomed action being taken by the Mayor of London to tackle this issue. He stated that he would be monitoring progress and then agreed the recommendations as set out in the report.
RESOLVED
1. To note that a mayoral priority growth bid was passed and an air quality fund has been approved in the last budget. The fund is for £200,000 over a two year period of 17/18 and 18/19. The fund is intended for ‘prospective bidders to support activities aligned to the Council priorities in improving air quality’. Criteria for the proposed projects include:
· be related to either reducing emissions of, reducing exposure to or increasing awareness of air pollution;
· be directly relevant to actions in our AQAP;
· have a measurable impact; and
· have wider community benefits
2. To approve the Air Quality and Climate Change Strategy.
3. To approve the Air Quality Action Plan.