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In the year when recovery from the global pandemic and the imminent UN COP26 climate change conference are uppermost in our minds, we've taken a bold step towards a Clean, Green future with the launch of our new Climate Change Strategy to tackle the challenges of global warming.
The call from our young people…
In October 2019 Councillor Claire Leitch, Cabinet member for Children and Young People, Net Zero, Environment and Climate Change, Equalities and Inclusion, was instrumental in working with members of our Children and Young People’s Cabinet to set up and run a Children and Young People’s Climate Conference, which was held in East Ayrshire’s Council Chamber.
One of the major outcomes of that conference was the overwhelming plea from the young delegates. They asked us all to look locally to see what changes we could make, and specified that this should include every function carried out by the Council.
We listened…
We immediately set up a working group covering all our council services, elected members and young people. And now we’ve published the results of that call to action with this groundbreaking Climate Change Strategy.
Now we want to hear from you...
We're signing up to the UK100 pledge to help us become a a Net Zero council by 2030. And we want to see the whole East Ayrshire area becoming Net Zero by 2045.
Our consultation
Help us work more effectively to tackle climate change by taking some time to read our strategy and answer our climate change questionnaire.
We'll use the results to refine our plans and establish a base level of opinion on which to build. Our plans are long term, so we'll regularly review our progress and let you know how we're getting on.
Keep informed
- for regular email updates about our progress with our Climate Change Strategy please visit StayConnected and select 'Clean Green East Ayrshire - climate change'
- keep up to date with how we're doing on our Climate Change webpages
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