Decision details

Carbon Sequestration and Woodland Creation

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

The Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee established a Climate Change Working Group to consider how Staffordshire County Council can offset residual carbon and meet its Net Zero commitment by 2050.

Decisions:

 

 

 

“Although this authority has taken steps towards its target of reaching net zero by 2050 by cutting carbon emissions by 50 per cent since 2019, there is still more to be done. 

 

This working party report suggests possible ways that the Council can meet its commitment to the environment and support Staffordshire’s economy, while also enhancing the county’s quality of life. 

 

We will consider the report and respond in due course.”  

 

Simon Tagg, Cabinet Member for Environment, Infrastructure and Climate Change 

 

Reasons for the Decision – To consider the report of the Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s Climate Change Working Group on Carbon Sequestration and Woodland Creation 

 

Decision – (a) That the report of the Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s Climate Change Working Group on Carbon Sequestration and Woodland Creation be received. 

 

(b) That an executive response to the Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the recommendation(s) of the Carbon Sequestration and Woodland Creation report be provided within two months of receipt of the report 

Report author: Deborah Breedon

Publication date: 18/01/2024

Date of decision: 17/01/2024

Decided at meeting: 17/01/2024 - Cabinet

Effective from: 24/01/2024

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