Councillor Wendy Schmitt, Cabinet Member for Environment and Place, at Braintree District Council
- Credit: Braintree District Council
Braintree District Council s draft strategy to help the district tackle climate change is taking a step forward.
A special meeting of Full Council on Monday, March 15 will be asked to agree to a six-week stakeholder engagement on the draft climate change strategy.
The final Climate Change Strategy will be presented to the council in July.
The council declared a climate emergency in July 2019. They brought together a working group from across the district and their research led to the creation of the draft strategy.
Mrs Schmitt said: We cannot achieve the district’s climate change aims and objectives on our own, so I am so pleased the working group has made such an impact and that we already have ideas from business and residents. Many activities which we will carry out over the next decade will make our district a more pleasant place to live by reducing waste, improving air quality and providing public spaces which are more people-focused, greener and biodiverse. The strategy will go out to public consultation in May before the final strategy is presented to council in July. The Climate Change Strategy attempts to complement national and regional plans such as the Environment Bill 2020 and Essex Climate Change Strategy.
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