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Argyll and Bute Council · 12 August 2025
Back to Bute and Cowal Area Community Planning Group — 12 August 2025 and its agenda

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Classification: OFFICIAL
Argyll & Bute Climate Action: August
2025 update
Remit & Vision
• Climate Change Strategy and Action
Plan action across a set of priority
areas within the CPP’s ability to
control or influence:
– Infrastructure [includes natural]
– Policy Influence
– Skills, Procurement and Supply Chain
– Resilience/Carbon Literacy
– Risk Assessment
– Crosscutting/Other
“We make Argyll and Bute climate
ready by acting together to understand
and adapt to our changing climate”
Progress
• Ongoing work on action plan,
community engagement, risk
assessment, alignment with other
regions
• PM to remain in post to Jul 2026 to
support
– Community risk & resilience
– Future partnership/funding options
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Classification: OFFICIAL
Bute and Cowal
Community Resilience
• Limited capacity in community councils A&B
• Contacted pilot groups across 4 A&B Areas
• B&C: Strachur, ColGlen, Dunoon (Sandbank)
• SEPA, R&I Flooding
• This workstream to start in earnest Nov
• What if no community council?
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Contact: Andy Macpherson, ACT climate project manager andy@act-now.org.uk