Issue - meetings

This report provides an update on the Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Action Plan towards a Climate Change Strategy for the City, including additional information requested by the Executive when they endorsed the Strategy in September 2007. 

RESOLVED: (i)         That the report be noted and that it be noted that the Carbon Management Programme Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) will be brought to the Executive in March 2008.

REASON:      So that Members are kept informed of progress on this matter.

                        (ii)        That, in the interim, Officers evaluate and progress the smart metering option offered by the Council’s energy supplier for 30 trial sites across the Council’s property portfolio.

REASON:      To enable the Council effectively to monitor energy performance and achieve efficiency savings.

Members considered a report which provided an update on the Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Action Plan towards a Climate Change Strategy for York.  This update had been requested when the Executive endorsed the Strategy and Action Plan in September 2007.

The report outlined progress made on:

A - activities taking place as part of the Carbon Management Programme, including a list of agreed projects with resources and funding allocated and further options for action with no agreed resources or funding.  The total percentage saving from the committed activities was 26%.

B – activities by the Local Strategic Partnership and the York Environment Partnership to produce a Climate Change Strategy for the City, including a scope and procedure for preparation of the Strategy agreed by the Without Walls Board on 21 November (attached as Annex A).  Clear identification and implementation of activities would be a matter for individual partnerships. 

The report made some general suggestions, in areas of common interest to all LSP partnerships, on working towards the target of a 60% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.  It was noted that the Strategy should also include well-developed communication activities, to ensure public engagement.

Members expressed their thanks to the two Sustainability Officers, who would shortly be leaving the Council, for their work in advancing the Strategy.

Having noted the comments of the Shadow Executive, it was

RESOLVED: (i)         That the report be noted and that it be noted that the Carbon Management Programme Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) will be brought to the Executive in March 2008.

REASON:      So that Members are kept informed of progress on this matter.

                        (ii)        That, in the interim, Officers evaluate and progress the smart metering option offered by the Council’s energy supplier for 30 trial sites across the Council’s property portfolio.

REASON:      To enable the Council effectively to monitor energy performance and achieve efficiency savings.