Argyll and Bute Climate Action: Developing a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute Council · 6 November 2024
Back to Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area Community Planning Group — 6 November 2024 and its agenda
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Date: 28 October 2024 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 known as the Climate Change Working Group. Its work is currently centred on producing a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for Argyll and Bute. The plan is to be produced by employing a Climate Change Project Manager to lead on the process. Argyll & the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust (ACT) are the employing body and the post (0.8 FTE) is fully funded by the CPP funded from end October 2023 to October 2025. This update sets out the current position. 4.0 Detail 4.1 Progress Following a literature review and a series of meetings with key Community Planning Partnership and wider regional and national partners, the draft strategy was presented to the Climate Change Working Group and to the SPP Full Partnership meeting 16 September. A copy of this is attached and any feedback or comments to the project manager, Andy Macpherson andy@act-now.org.uk would be welcome, as would appropriate Area-level engagement opportunities. A finalised version of the strategy is to be submitted to the CPP Management Committee’s December meeting, with the intention thereafter to work up the action plan and pilot projects, including seeking funding for projects, with partners across
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the region. The project is working closely with the Scottish Government-funded Argyll & Bute Climate Action Network Hub (ABCAN), which sits within the wider suite of Act Now climate projects in which ACT is engaged, and a copy of the ABCAN newsletter is attached. The structure was informed by best and most appropriate exemplars from across Scotland, and by feedback from Steering Group and wider partner meetings including the emphasis placed on brevity and avoidance of duplication. Key principles of the strategy are: • Embed just transition throughout • Align with CPP outcomes o Transport infrastructure o Housing o Community Wellbeing • Emphasise action that is within the CPP’s agency to control or influence • Make links, address gaps • Methodology drawn from existing regional climate strategies • Complement not replace partners’ existing action • Compatible with existing reporting requirements • Make it Simple and Short These are expressed in the vision statement that 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 in addition to a version suitable for young people. • Ongoing mapping, local impact projections and risk assessment informed by engagement • Final draft Strategy to December CPP Management Committee • December – February action plan and project development, ongoing risk assessment informed by engagement • March draft 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