Issue - meetings

Purpose.

To provide information on recent international climate change initiatives and campaigns that Portsmouth City Council have joined.

RECOMMENDED that the Cabinet Member for Climate Change & Environment note the report.

Kristina Downey, Principal Strategy Adviser for Carbon Management introduced the report and added that the UNF CCC would like to showcase the Southsea Coastal Scheme on its website as an example of good resilience work.

Councillor Kimberley Barrett noted that the council has made more progress than some other local authorities who have also declared a climate emergency.  She hoped that the government will allocate more funding to local authorities to tackle the climate emergency.

Organisations across the world have noticed what Portsmouth City Council is doing in this field.

The Cabinet Member for Climate Change & the Environment noted the report.