Argyll and Bute Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute Council · 4 February 2025
Back to Bute and Cowal Area Community Planning Group — 4 February 2025 and its agenda
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Date: 22 January 2025 Argyll and Bute Climate Action: developing a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for Argyll and Bute. 1.0 Purpose The purpose of this report is to provide an update on the Community Planning Partnership’s Argyll And Bute Climate Action project: developing a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for Argyll and Bute. 2.0 Recommendations The CPG is asked to note the approach and status of the project outlined in the report and to provide any comments or feedback to the project manager. 3.0 Background The CPP sub-group working on climate change is the Climate Change Working Group. Its current focus is producing a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for Argyll and Bute. Argyll & the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust (ACT) are the employing body for the Climate Change Project Manager leading on the process, and the post (0.8 FTE) is funded by the CPP from end October 2023 to October 2025. This update sets out the current position. 4.0 Detail 4.1 Progress The draft strategy was presented to the Climate Change Working Group, the CPP Full Partnership and Area CPGs over September to November 2024, with requests for feedback and comments including appropriate engagement opportunities. Based on the feedback received, a revised draft was submitted to the CPP Management Committee. The CPP Management Committee approved the revised draft at its meeting of 6 December 2024, and copies of the executive summary and appendix of local climate
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trends accompany this update. The full set of appendices can be found at https://www.act-now.org.uk/cpp The intention thereafter is to work up the action plan and pilot projects, including seeking funding for projects, with partners across the region. This is where input at Area level would be especially useful and the project officer would welcome advice from Area CPGs on the most appropriate groups in their respective areas to contact. The CPP agreed that the strategy should align with the three CPP outcomes (Housing, Transport Infrastructure and Community Wellbeing), that it should focus on action within its own agency to control or influence, and, in line with the risk scoping and gap and opportunity analysis, priority areas for action should be: o Infrastructure (including natural infrastructure) o Policy Influence o Procurement and Supply Chain o Resilience/Carbon Literacy Training o Risk/Economic Assessment o Skills Development o Crosscutting/Other The Management Committee noted that development of the action plan would likely reflect partners’ capacity to engage over and above their normal core work, and agreed that the Committee should provide direction as the action plan develops on the balance between playing to the CPP partners’ strengths or seeking to address gaps and weaknesses. The Management Committee We make Argyll and Bute climate ready by acting together to understand and adapt to our changing climate 4.2 Next Steps Immediate next steps are: • Produce a short easy-to read summary plus a version suitable for young people. • Develop a broader programme of engagement, including Area level • Ongoing mapping, local impact projections and risk assessment • December – February action plan and project development, ongoing risk assessment informed by engagement • March first draft of action plan to Climate Change Working Group Andy Macpherson, Climate Change Project Manager For more information, please contact: Andy Macpherson andy@act-now.org.uk