Issue - meetings

(Lead Member: Cllr S Hinchcliffe, Director: Alan Reiss)

Resolved:

(a)       That the findings of the study be endorsed.

(b)       That approval be given to wider engagement with stakeholders on the findings of the study.

The Combined Authority considered a report of the Director, Policy, Strategy and Communications on the West Yorkshire Carbon Emission Pathways.

The West Yorkshire Carbon Emission Reduction Pathways (CERP)  study was commissioned to demonstrate the different ways in which the climate emergency could be addressed, and the strengthened target met. It also provided guidance to West Yorkshire councils and businesses on the ways they could address their own climate emergency declarations and targets.  The meeting was attended by Antonia Mattos and Katherine Orchard from Element Energy, the consultants who had carried out the study. 

Members discussed the findings to date which will inform future decisions about how to tackle the climate emergency and become a net zero carbon region. It was reported that significant engagement had been undertaken with the West Yorkshire councils and the Green Economy Panel had reviewed the findings of the study to date.  The conclusions will enable the Authority to start on a pathway towards becoming net-zero carbon by 2038 and to focus, in the short-term, on those actions that are common to all the pathways and these were detailed in the submitted report.

It was agreed that the work should proceed to the next stages as outlined in the report. This included engagement with as wide a number of stakeholders as possible to obtain their input into the development of policies and actions that could be implemented. A report would be brought to a future meeting.

Resolved:

(a)       That the findings of the study be endorsed.

(b)       That approval be given to wider engagement with stakeholders on the findings of the study.