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Climate Change impacts to be reported |
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At a full meeting of Oxford City Council held on 19th November 2007, a motion from the Green Group succeeded in gaining widespread Council support for improving the reporting of climate change impacts. Text of motion below:
Climate Change Impacts – Information in reports (Proposer – Cllr Sellwood) Council notes that - Oxford City Council is committed through its Corporate Plan and Climate Change Action Plan to ongoing reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Many of the decisions taken by Councillors as a result of reports from officers have implications for greenhouse gas emissions and the climate change agenda. Planning reports in Oxford now have a mandatory paragraph on the sustainability implications of any application. Council believes that information on climate change impacts should be available to councillors before decisions are made. Council:- (1) resolves that every report to councillors on matters that are Council functions contains a paragraph on the climate change implications of the recommended decision; (2) invites the Executive Board to resolve similarly in respect of reports on Executive functions.
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