Issue - meetings

(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.

The Committee had before it a report by the Director of Commissioning which sought approval of the statutory Climate Change Report (CCR) covering the period 2020/2021 and indicated that it required to be submitted to the Scottish Government, to ensure compliance with the requirements of Part 4 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      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); and

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

The Convener, seconded by Councillor Boulton moved:-

that the Committee:-

(1)    approve the recommendations contained within the report;

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

(3)    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

(4)    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.

Councillor Nicol, seconded by Councillor Cameron moved as an amendment:-

           that the Committee approve the recommendations contained within the report.

On a division, there voted:- for the motion (6) – the Convener, the Vice Convener and Councillors Boulton, Grant, Mackenzie and Yuill; for the amendment (3) – Councillors Cameron, Cooke and Nicoll.

The Committee resolved:-

to adopt the motion.