192 Haringey Climate Action Plan
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[Report of the Director of Housing,
Regeneration and Planning. To be introduced by the Cabinet Member
for Climate Change and Sustainability]
This report seeks Cabinet to agree the launch
and publication of the Haringey Climate Change Action Plan.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Cabinet Member for Climate
Change and Sustainability introduced the report which set out the
ambition and the actions required to make the Borough net
zero-carbon by 2041. The Cabinet Member stressed that doing nothing
was no longer an option. This was a climate emergency and the last
opportunity to make a difference. The Council could not achieve
these targets alone as it was only responsible for 8% of emissions.
There was a need to change hearts and minds.
In
response to questions from Cllr Ogiehor the following was
noted:
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The Cabinet Member agreed investigate the reasons
for some lights being left on in River Park House during the
evenings and provide a response.
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The Head of Carbon Management would provide Cllr
Ogiehor a written response to the level of di-vesments in fossil
fuel by the Council’s Pension Fund. This was thought to be
75% but there would be clarification sought from the Pensions
Team.
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With regards to consideration of a work place levy,
and considering the ‘Nottingham Model’ that this
question alluded to, the main factor was that the Council did not
own many carparks to instigate this. Taking this forward would mean
potential extra charge for Councils’ own car parks used by
employees so the Council would in a sense be charging itself which
was not appropriate. The strategy being followed was to
disincentives employees’ use of cars to deter use of car
parks.
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Noted that charging points for electrical cars in
the borough only provided renewable green sources of energy but the
Cabinet Member would explore the issue raised regarding mandating
the use of green renewable energy
sources for charging given the issues concerning the cost of
electric car batteries.
RESOLVED
- To
agree to publish the draft Haringey Climate Change Action Plan to
consult with residents, businesses and other stakeholders who can
discuss and gain an understanding of the actions to be taken,
before refining and adopting the final Climate Change Action Plan
in late 2020;
- To
agree that the Action Plan will be reported back to Cabinet by
November 2020;
- To
commit to the Council to start working now towards becoming a net
zero carbon Council, and for all core Council buildings and the
fleet to be net zero carbon by 2027;
- To
agree to start work now on lobbying national and regional
government, as set out in the Action Plan, to ask for greater
powers and access to finance to increase the rate of carbon
reduction;
- To
agree that the Council will continue to report progress against the
final Action Plan through the Haringey Annual Carbon
Report.
Reasons for decision
Delivering a net zero carbon borough by 2050 is an objective in
the Borough Plan 2019-23. However, in light of the new scientific
evidence published in the report Special Report on
Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2018), Full Council in March 2019
agreed to declare a climate emergency, and to review this date for
delivery with ...
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