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This report outlines the results of the city-wide consultation on the draft Climate Change Framework and Climate Change Action Plan for York. It highlights proposed amendments to the drafts and seeks permission to finalise and adopt the CCFAP for York by the end of 2010.

RESOLVED: (i)         That the proposed amendments to the draft Climate Change Framework and Climate Change Action Plan (CCFAP) be approved.

REASON:      To enable the CCFAP to progress and to be approved and adopted.

                        (ii)        That the risks of delivering the finalised CCFAP, the scale of the challenge ahead, and the difficulty of delivering city-wide targets that rely on partnership working to achieve them, be noted.

REASON:      To highlight the ambition and challenge ahead of meeting the CCFAP, whilst noting the finite capacity of co-ordinating and delivering the targets through the existing City of York Council Sustainability Officer.

Members considered a report which outlined the results of a city-wide consultation on the draft Climate Change Framework and Climate Change Action Plan (CCFAP) for York, and sought permission to finalise and adopt the CCFAP by the end of 2010.

Public consultation had been carried out between 29 June and 21 September 2010, following Executive approval of the CCFAP consultation drafts on 8 June, and in accordance with the communication plan attached at Annex 1.  It included an on-line questionnaire (attached at Annex 2), 100 copies of which had been completed.  The headline results were summarised in Annex 3.  In the light of these results, specifically the answers to questions 3, 5, 6 and 8, a number of changes were proposed to the draft CCFAP, as summarised in paragraph 9 of the report.

Details of potential risks arising from the CCFAP, in particular the possibility of the Council and its Without Walls partners failing to deliver the actions set out in the Plan, were set out in paragraphs 28 to 30 of the report.  Processes in place to manage these risks were detailed in paragraph 31.

Having noted the comments of the Labour Group Spokespersons on this item, it was

RESOLVED: (i)         That the proposed amendments to the draft Climate Change Framework and Climate Change Action Plan (CCFAP) be approved. ¹

REASON:      To enable the CCFAP to progress and to be approved and adopted.

                        (ii)        That the risks of delivering the finalised CCFAP, the scale of the challenge ahead, and the difficulty of delivering city-wide targets that rely on partnership working to achieve them, be noted.

REASON:      To highlight the ambition and challenge ahead of meeting the CCFAP, whilst noting the finite capacity of co-ordinating and delivering the targets through the existing City of York Council Sustainability Officer.