Update on the council's Climate Emergency Response Plan

In February 2019 Durham County Council declared a Climate Change Emergency and set ambitious targets to reduce its own carbon emissions by 60% by 2030 and to investigate what further actions would be necessary to make County Durham carbon neutral by 2050.

In February last year, given strong performance to date, the Council's target was raised to an 80% reduction. However a reduction of this scale is extremely challenging as can be seen from the latest update on the council's Climate Emergency Response Plan (CERP).

Last Friday the county council's Environment and Sustainable Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered progress with the plan as part of its annual work programme.

As usual during the current pandemic the meeting was held remotely and can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VX2FAz_utc

Full details of the CERP can be found in the links below:

a	Report of the Corporate Director of Neighbourhoods and Climate Change PDF 556 KB

• APP2 CERP report , item 7a PDF 665 KB
• APP3 CERP report , item 7a PDF 699 KB
• APP 4 CERP report , item 7a PDF 450 KB
• Backgroud Paper - Full Council 20 February 2019 Climate Change Emergency Declaration, item 7a
• Background Paper - Full Council 17 July 2019 Climate Change Emergency Update Report, item 7a
• Background Paper: Cabinet 12 February 2020 Climate Emergency Response Plan, item 7a