Waverley Council passed the following motion:
The Executive RECOMMENDS to Council that:
i) Waverley Borough Council declares a ‘Climate Emergency’
requiring urgent action.
ii) Waverley Borough Council aims to become carbon neutral by 2030,
taking into account both production and consumption
emissions, and takes a leadership role to achieve this working
with other councils, including town and parish councils with the
borough.
iii) Waverley Borough Council recognises that the achievement of the
target will require central government to provide the powers,
funding and other resources to achieve the target and therefore
calls on the government to provide such powers, funding and
other resources as appropriate to facilitate achieving the 2030
target.
iv) Officers be instructed to provide to the Council’s Executive, within
six months of the date of this decision, a report on the actions
the Council and the local community can take to address these
issues together with an action plan, specifying year on year
milestones and metrics to show progress towards achieving the
goal of carbon neutrality by 2030 noting any additional costs
that might be involved.
