Decision details

(i)        approve the statutory Climate Change Report 2020/21 and instruct the Chief Executive to sign and date the Required Report, prior to the submission deadline of 30 November 2021, (Appendix 1);

(ii)       instruct the Chief Officer - Strategic Place Planning to publish the Climate Change Report on the Council’s website, as per reporting requirements;

(iii)      note that the Scottish Government have once again missed their targets for Climate Change;

(iv)      note that in May 2020, Aberdeen City Council introduced our Net Zero Vision and Infrastructure Plan and in June 2020 set about introducing a governance model that engaged with the private sector to ensure that the Council meets its targets for Net Zero; and

(v)       agree that Councils right across Scotland are being let down by the SNP/Green Scottish Government who introduce Net Zero legislation then cut Council funding thereby ensuring that the targets they introduced are almost impossible to deliver upon.