Issue - meetings
Report on the progress of the administration of the Green Charter
Meeting: 24/03/2014 - Executive (Item 4)
4 Report on the progress of the administration of the Green Charter PDF 64 KB
The adopted Green Charter (2012) policy sets out the Council’s wide-ranging areas of influence under the sustainability programme, the Council’s contribution to increasing the sustainability performance of the organisation and details the support the Council will provide to encourage those who live, work or study in the Borough to contribute to this agenda. The purpose of this report is to update the Executive on progress made against the Green Charter’s objectives since last year’s update report
Additional documents:
Decision:
that the contents of the Green Charter monitoring report in Appendix A and note the achievements listed in section 3.5 be noted.
Minutes:
The adopted Green Charter (2012) policy set out the council’s wide-ranging areas of influence under the sustainability programme, the council’s contribution to increasing the sustainability performance of the organisation and detailed the support the Council would provide to encourage those who live, work or study in the Borough to contribute to this agenda.
Councillor Mashari (Lead Member, Environment and Neighbourhoods) drew attention to progress made against objectives since the last report in 2013 in particular residents recycling 43% of their waste placing the borough among the top performers in London. She was also pleased to report on the continued success of the Welsh Harp Centre in promoting sustainability with children and that Fair Trade status had been retained.
RESOLVED:
that the contents of the Green Charter monitoring report attached as Appendix A to the report from the Strategic Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods and that the achievements listed in section 3.5 of the report be noted.