Issue - meetings
Green Charter
Meeting: 17/10/2011 - Executive (Item 5)
Brent Council’s Corporate Strategy, ‘Brent Our Future 2010 - 2014’ says that the Council will develop a Green Charter, ‘setting out how we can work together to protect our environment’. A draft Green Charter was circulated between 29 June and 04 August 2011 for consultation and the outcome of this consultation is set out in this report. As a result, a revised version of the Charter is attached in Appendix 1. The Executive is asked to adopt this version of the Charter.
Additional documents:
Decision:
(i) that the Green Charter be adopted;
(ii) that officers implement the Charter’s actions through departmental performance improvements plans, and
(iii) that an annual Green Charter progress report be published.
Minutes:
Councillor Powney (Lead Member, Environment and Neighbourhoods) introduced the report from the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services which set out the outcome of consultation conducted between 29 June and 4 August 2011 and presented a revised version of the Green Charter attached as Appendix 1. The Executive was asked to adopt the Charter and to ask officers to implement the actions in their departmental performance improvement plans. Councillor Powney referred to the deputations received earlier in meeting from Brian Orr (Green Party) and Viv Stein (Brent Campaign against Climate Change) and agreed with the need to raise awareness. The new initiatives would reduce emissions by 20% and the new waste management arrangements would cut emissions by half. Consequently he felt that as a service provider the council was making a positive contribution. Councillor Powney stated that the Green Charter was part of a package which also included the Development Framework's Core Strategy which made additional demands and also work with other parties. He also referred to the extensive consultation that had been carried out. Councillor Powney commended the recommendations in the report to the meeting.
Councillor Arnold (Lead Member, Children and Families) drew members' attention to work taking place with partners particularly schools who were one of the main sources of carbon emissions. Training would be embedded in the curriculum.
The Chair on behalf of the Executive thanked the members of the public present for attending.
RESOLVED:-
(i) that the Green Charter be adopted;
(ii) that officers implement the Charter’s actions through departmental performance improvements plans;
(iii) that an annual Green Charter progress report be published.