Lobbying for climate action & funding
Climate Emergency UK made this Freedom of Information request to Broadland District Council as part of a batch sent to 181 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Broadland District Council,
Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request.
I would like information about your council’s lobbying work in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following question:
Has the council written to or met with UK national or devolved governments to ask or lobby for climate action since 1st January 2019? Please provide some evidence of the most recent letter or meeting such as a copy of the letter or email sent, or the date, topic of meeting and position of the person that the meeting was held with.
This includes either asking for more powers and funding for local authorities to take climate action, or asking for the government to take further action themselves. This includes working with other local authorities to send joint letters or meetings to lobby UK or devolved governments, and includes both general climate action and calls for action on specific issues such as transport where climate change is mentioned as a motivating factor for taking action.
This includes if a cabinet member or other councillor has written to or met with the UK or devolved governments on behalf of the council.
I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK
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Dear Hannah
I refer to your Freedom of Information request to which I am now in a position to respond on behalf of Broadland District Council and South Norfolk Council. The Councils work in collaboration and share one officer team.
In terms of Broadland, it resolved at a meeting of Council on 25 April 2019 to:
1) Call on the Government to provide additional powers and resources to help deliver on National Targets limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees.
2) Instruct the future cabinet to adopt a policy whereby all future key decisions are considered and a statement made for their environmental impact and for their alignment to the IPCC guidance.
3) Continue to identify a cabinet member to have clear responsibility for environment and implementation of future environmental policy of the council.
4) Continue the work on reviewing the Environmental Strategy through the Environment Excellence Panel or similar and to set ambitious targets and aspirations for future environmental policy.
Further details can be found in the minutes of the meeting: https://www.southnorfolkandbroadland.gov...
In addition, South Norfolk Council discussed climate change at meetings of Council at the end of 2021 - you can view the minutes on our website: https://www.southnorfolkandbroadland.gov...
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Regards
Emma
Emma Goddard
Senior Governance Officer
t 01508 533943 e [email address]
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